Oxford Physics in the Thirteenth Century

(Ca. 1250-1270) Motion, Infinity, Place and Time
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-04-11657-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 72, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 689 g

Reihe: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trifogli, Cecilia

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Experimentalphysik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction
1. Motion: Its Ontological Status
2. The Infinite
3. Place
4. Time

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Manuscripts
Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

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.