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1 Online-Ressource (XII, 479 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9789004512054
Series Statement:
Medieval and early modern philosophy and science volume 34
Content:
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 the fourteenth century until Leibniz and the philosophy of the seventeenth century and explores how the Calculators' techniques of quantification expanded the conceptual and methodological limits of Aristotelianism. In the process, it examines a large number of authors, some of them never studied in this context. Exploring the relationship between various late medieval disciplines, the book sheds new light on the problem of continuity vs. discontinuity between scholasticism and modern science. Beyond its historiographical purpose, this book also hopes to be a source of inspiration for present-day philosophers of science
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Acknowledgements
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List of Figures
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Notes on Contributors
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Introduction
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1 Thomas Wylton on the Ceasing of an Instant of Time
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2 The New Interpretation of Aristotle: Richard Kilvington, Thomas Bradwardine, and the New Rule of Motion
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3 The Opuscula de motu Ascribed to Richard Swineshead: The Testimony of the Ongoing Development of the Oxford Calculators' Science of Motion
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4 Calculations in Thomas Bradwardine's De causa dei , Book I
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5 The Calculators on the Insolubles: Bradwardine, Kilvington, Heytesbury, Swyneshed, and Dumbleton
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6 The Influence of the Oxford Calculatores on the Understanding of Local Motion: The Example of the Tractatus de sex inconvenientibus
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7 Wyclif, the Black Sheep of the Oxford Calculators
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8 On the Reception of English Logic at Universities of Central Europe: Helmoldus de Zoltwedel (Prague, Leipzig) on the Liar-Paradox
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9 Blasius of Parma on the Calculation of the Variation of Qualities and Aristotelian Physics
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10 The Calculators Tradition in Oresme's De visione stellarum
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11 Perfections and Latitudes: The Development of the Calculators' Tradition and the Geometrisation of Metaphysics and Theology
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12 Decline of the Calculators in Paris c. 1500: Humanism and Print
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13 Some Aspects of the 'Rules' of motus difformis in Angelo da Fossambruno's Commentary on Heytesbury's De tribus praedicamentis
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14 Leibniz and the Calculators
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Manuscripts
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Bibliography
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Index Nominum.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004499829
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Quantifying Aristotle Leiden : Brill, 2022 ISBN 9789004499829
Language:
English
Keywords:
Aristotelismus
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Mathematische Methode
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1163/9789004512054
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