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=== Classical and medieval commentaries on the Physics ===
A commentary differs from a note in being a distinct work analyzing the language and subsumed concepts of some other work classically notable. A note appears within the annotated work on the same page or in a separate list. Commentaries are typically arranged by lemmas, or quotes from the notable work, followed by an analysis of the author of the commentary.
The commentaries on every work of Aristotle are a vast and mainly unpublished topic. They extend continuously from the death of the philosopher, representing the entire history of Graeco-Roman philosophy. There are thousands of commentators and commentaries known wholly or more typically in fragments of manuscripts. The latter especially occupy the vaults of institutions formerly responsible for copying them, such as monasteries. The process of publishing them is slow and ongoing.
Below is a brief representative bibliography of published commentaries on Aristotle's Physics available on or through the Internet. Like the topic itself, they are perforce multi-cultural, but English has been favored, as well as the original languages, ancient Greek and Latin.

=== Some modern commentaries, monographs and articles ===

== Further reading ==
Books
Die Aristotelische Physik, W. Wieland, 1962, 2nd revised edition 1970.
Articles
Machamer, Peter K., "Aristotle on Natural Place and Motion," Isis 69:3 (Sept. 1978), 377–387.

== External links ==

=== Commentaries and comments ===
HTML Greek, in parallel with English translation: Fr. Kenny's collection Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine (with Aquinas's commentary)
HTML Greek, in parallel with French translation: P. Remacle's collection
Thomas Aquinas's Commentary
A 'Bigger' Physics – lecture at MIT on how Aristotle's natural philosophy complements modern science and the need for a general science of nature

=== Other ===
Greek text of Physics, as edited by W.D. Ross
Perseus edition of Physics in Greek
Aristotle: Motion and its Place in Nature entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
 Physics, English Translation by Thomas Taylor public domain audiobook at LibriVox
Text of Physics, (in html, epub or mobi format) as translated by R. P. Hardie and R. K. Gaye