On the Threshold of Exact Science : : Selected Writings of Anneliese Meier on Late Medieval Natural Philosophy / / Annelise Maier; Steven D. Sargent.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Maier, Annelise,
• HerausgeberIn: Sargent, Steven D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (178 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Bibliographical Notes and Abbreviations --; Introduction --; One. The Nature of Motion --; Two. Causes, Forces, and Resistance --; Three. The Concept of the Function in Fourteenth-Century Physics --; Four. The Significance of the Theory of Impetus for Scholastic Natural Philosophy --; Five. Galileo and the Scholastic Theory of Impetus --; Six. The Theory of the Elements and the Problem of Their Participation in Compounds --; Seven. The Achievements of Late Scholastic Natural Philosophy --; Index --; The Middle Ages
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512809411; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512809411
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Annelise Maier; Steven D. Sargent.

Translated into English for the first time, the writings of the twentieth-century scholar Annelise Maier on late medieval natural philosophy are here made accessible to a broader audience. The seven selections represent both Maier's earlier and later works. Her perceptions as a trained philosopher, coupled with her familiarity with the full range of primary source material, result in these rare insights into the historical importance of medieval science.