Quantifying Aristotle : : the impact, spread, and decline of the Calculatores tradition / / edited by Daniel A. Di Liscia, Edith Dudley Sylla, Paul J. J. M. Bakker.
Aristotelian philosophy is generally regarded as incompatible with the mathematical methods and principles that form the basis of modern science. This book offers an entirely new perspective on this presumed incompatibility. It surveys the tradition of the Oxford Calculators from its beginnings in t...
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| Superior document: | Medieval and early modern philosophy and science ; Volume 34 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern philosophy and science ;
Volume 34. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (491 pages) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction / Daniel A. Di Liscia
- 1 Thomas Wylton on the Ceasing of an Instant of Time / Cecilia Trifogli
- 2 The New Interpretation of Aristotle: Richard Kilvington, Thomas Bradwardine, and the New Rule of Motion / Elżbieta Jung
- 3 The Opuscula de motu Ascribed to Richard Swineshead: The Testimony of the Ongoing Development of the Oxford Calculators' Science of Motion / Robert Podkoński
- 4 Calculations in Thomas Bradwardine's De causa dei , Book I / Edit Anna Lukács
- 5 The Calculators on the Insolubles: Bradwardine, Kilvington, Heytesbury, Swyneshed, and Dumbleton / Stephen Read
- 6 The Influence of the Oxford Calculatores on the Understanding of Local Motion: The Example of the Tractatus de sex inconvenientibus / Sabine Rommevaux-Tani
- 7 Wyclif, the Black Sheep of the Oxford Calculators / Mark Thakkar
- 8 On the Reception of English Logic at Universities of Central Europe: Helmoldus de Zoltwedel (Prague, Leipzig) on the Liar-Paradox / Harald Berger
- 9 Blasius of Parma on the Calculation of the Variation of Qualities and Aristotelian Physics / Joël Biard
- 10 The Calculators Tradition in Oresme's De visione stellarum / Aníbal Szapiro
- 11 Perfections and Latitudes: The Development of the Calculators' Tradition and the Geometrisation of Metaphysics and Theology / Daniel A. Di Liscia
- 12 Decline of the Calculators in Paris c. 1500: Humanism and Print / Richard Oosterhoff
- 13 Some Aspects of the 'Rules' of motus difformis in Angelo da Fossambruno's Commentary on Heytesbury's De tribus praedicamentis / Fabio Seller
- 14 Leibniz and the Calculators / Edith Dudley Sylla
- Manuscripts
- Bibliography
- Index Nominum.