The Church Fathers · c. 557–560
On the Creation of the World
De Opificio Mundi
John Philoponus · c. 490 – c. 570
What it is
A hexaemeron by a working physicist, arguing that Moses wrote for ordinary people rather than to teach astronomy, and that God set the world running with its own powers rather than pushing each thing along — the heavens and the earth being made of the same kind of matter.
Why it lasted
Against Cosmas Indicopleustes, who read Genesis as a flat-earth cosmology in the same decades and whose book this catalogue also holds. Philoponus's impetus theory reached Galileo through Arabic and Latin channels, and his account of accommodation is the one Calvin uses.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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