{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0086.tlg023.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg023.local001","title":"Μηχανικά","titleGreek":"Μηχανικά","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Aristotle","authorityName":"ARISTOTELES Phil. et CORPUS AR-","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","editors":["Immanuel Bekker"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Open Greek and Latin","sourceTitle":"Aristotelis Opera","edition":null,"publisher":"Oxford University Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1837","volume":"6","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":null,"sponsors":[],"funders":["Center for Hellenic Studies"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital conversion and editing","names":[]},{"role":"Digital editor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/operaexrecension06arisuoft/page/144/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aristotle. Μηχανικά. ed. Immanuel Bekker. Aristotelis Opera, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1837. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg023.local001","excerpt":"ΘΑΥΜΑΖΕΤΑΙ τῶν μὲν κατὰ φύσιν συμβαινόντων, ὅσων ἀγνοεῖται τὸ αἴτιον, τῶν δὲ παρὰ φύσιν, ὅσα γίνεται διὰ τέχνην πρὸς τὸ συμφέρον τοῖς ἀνθρώποις. Ἐν πολλοῖς γὰρ ἢ φύσις ὑπεναντίον πρὸς τὸ χρήσιμον ἡμῖν ποιεῖ· ἡ μὲν γὰρ φύσις ἀεὶ τὸν αὐτὸν ἔχει τρόπον καὶ ἀπλῶς, τὸ δὲ χρήσιμον μεταβάλλει πολλαχῶς. Ὄταν οὖν δέῃ τι παρὰ φύσιν πράξαι, διὰ τὸ χαλεπὸν ἀπορίαν παρέχει καὶ δεῖται τέχνης. Διὸ καὶ καλοῦμεν τῆς τέχνης τὸ πρὸς τὰς τοιαύτας ἀπορίας βοηθοῦν μέρος μηχανήν. Καθάπερ γὰρ ἐποίησεν Ἀντιφῶν ὁ ποιητής, οὕτω καὶ ἔχει· τέχνῃ γὰρ κρατοῦμεν, ὧν φύσει νικώμεθα. Τοιαῦτα δέ ἐστιν ἐν οἶς τά τε ἐλάττονα κρατεῖ τῶν μειζόνων, καὶ τὰ ῥοπὴν ἔχοντα μικρὰν κινεῖ βάρη μεγάλα, καὶ πάντα σχεδὸν ὅσα τῶν προβλημάτων μηχανικὰ προσαγορεύομεν. Ἕστι δὲ ταῦτα τοῖς φυσικοῖς προβλήμασιν οὔτε ταὐτὰ πάμπαν οὔτε κεχωρισμένα λίαν, ἀλλὰ κοινὰ τῶν τε μαθηματικῶν θεωρημάτων καὶ τῶν φυσικῶν· τὸ μὲν γὰρ ὥς διὰ τῶν μαθηματικῶν…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 0","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-0"},{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-18"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-19"},{"label":"Chapter 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-20"},{"label":"Chapter 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-21"},{"label":"Chapter 22","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-22"},{"label":"Chapter 23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-23"},{"label":"Chapter 24","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-24"},{"label":"Chapter 25","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-25"},{"label":"Chapter 26","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-26"},{"label":"Chapter 27","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-27"},{"label":"Chapter 28","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-28"},{"label":"Chapter 29","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-29"},{"label":"Chapter 30","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-30"},{"label":"Chapter 31","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-31"},{"label":"Chapter 32","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-32"},{"label":"Chapter 33","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-33"},{"label":"Chapter 34","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-34"},{"label":"Chapter 35","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/#tlg0086-tlg023-local001-35"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0086.tlg023.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086/tlg023/local001.json.gz"}}