On the threshold of exact science : selected writings of Anneliese Maier on late medieval natural philosophy / edited and translated with an introduction by Steven D. Sargent.

  • Maier, Anneliese, 1905-1971.
Date:
1982
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.

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xiv, 173 pages ; 24 cm.

Notes

Includes index

Bibliographic information

Bibliography: p. x-xiv

Contents

The nature of motion -- Causes, forces, and resistance -- The concept of the function in fourteenth-century physics -- The significance of the theory of impetus for Scholastic natural philosophy -- Galileo and the Scholastic theory of impetus -- The theory of the elements and the problem of their participation in compounds -- The achievements of late Scholastic natural philosophy.

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  • 0812278313