Oxford Physics in the Thirteenth Century (ca. 1250-1270): Motion, Infinity, Place, and Time

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BRILL, 2000 - 289 pagina's
This volume deals with the reception of Aristotle's natural philosophy in Oxford between 1250 and 1270. It examines a group of ten unedited commentaries on Aristotle's Physics. This book consists of four main chapters devoted respectively to the concepts of motion, infinity, place, and time. Topics included are the question about the nature of motion, the discussion of the actual infinity in numbers, the relation between Aristotle's concepts of place in the Physics and in the Categories, the debate about the reality and the unicity of time. This book offers a comprehensive philosophical analysis of a hitherto unexplored phase of the Aristotelian natural philosophy in the Middle Ages.
 

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Introduction
1
47
17
The Exegesis of the Definition of Motion
67
The Classification of Motion in the Aristotelian
75
The Infinite
87
Place
133
116
179
133
187
Time
203
Conclusion
263
Bibliography
275
Index of Names
281
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Over de auteur (2000)

Cecilia Trifogli has studied Philosophy and Mathematics at the University of Pisa and is Lecturer in Medieval Philosophy at the University of Oxford. She has published extensively on the tradition of Aristotle's Physics in the Middle Ages.

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