1. J. Barnes, in The complete Works of Aristotle—The Revised Oxford Translation (Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1984)。
2. R. J. Hankinson, in The Cambridge companion to Aristotle, ed. J. Barnes (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995), p. 165.
3. Aristotle, Physics, Book II, Chapter 2, 194a 29–31 (Oxford trans., p. 331)。
4. Ibid., Chapter 1, 192a 9 (Oxford trans., p. 329)。
5. Aristotle, Meteorology, Book II, Chapter 9, 396b 7–11 (Oxford trans., p. 596)。
6. Aristotle, On the Heavens, Book I, Chapter 6, 273b 30–31, 274a, 1 (Oxford trans., p. 455)。
7. Aristotle, Physics, Book IV, Chapter 8, 214b 12–13 (Oxford trans., p. 365)。
8. Ibid., 214b 32–34 (Oxford trans., p. 365)。
9. Ibid., Book VII, Chapter 1, 242a 50–54 (Oxford trans., p. 408)。
10. Aristotle, On the Heavens, Book III, Chapter 3, 301b 25–26 (Oxford trans., p. 494)。
11. Thomas Kuhn, “Remarks on Receiving the Laurea,” in L’Anno Galileiano (Edizioni LINT, Trieste, 1995)。
12. David C. Lindberg, in The Beginnings of Western Science (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1992), pp. 53–54.
13. David C. Lindberg, in The Beginnings of Western Science, 2nd ed. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 2007), p. 65.
14. Michael R. Matthews, in Introduction to The Scientific Background to Modern Philosophy (Hackett, Indianapolis, Ind., 1989)。