ABSTRACT
Eduard Zeller suggested that Eudemus' Physics was an abridgement of the Aristotelian treatise, compiled by Eudemus for his own lectures when he left the Lyceum and set up his own school in Rhodes. Zeller interprets as a claim by Eudemus that change in time, quite apart from any qualitative change involved, is to be added to the standard kinds of change. Eudemus' contrast between line-segments and empty space as separating also seems odd, for from a geometrical, as opposed to physical, point of view they come to the same thing. There are occasions where Eudemus' exposition is simply a compression of Aristotle's; for example, the argument in Eudemus that time and motion must both be divisible since it is possible to traverse the same distance at a faster or a slower speed. The picture of Eudemus' Physics that has emerged from consideration of this selection of passages is not radically different from the general scholarly consensus sketched at the outset.
