Quaestiones Super Geometriam Euclidis by Nicole Oresme
Author: John E. Murdoch
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Published: 1964
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Author: John E. Murdoch
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Published: 1964
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nicole Oresme
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNicole Oresme (ca. 1320-1384) was one of the most important intellectual figures of the scholastic period: not only was he a leading philosopher, theologian, astronomer and mathematician, but he was also involved in practical matters - he was secretary to the king of France, he was bishop of Lisieux, and he was involved in the assessment of coins and associated political problems. He took part in the teaching of scholastic philosophy, writing numerous commentaries on Aristotle. His contributions to the so-called "latitude of forms", i.e. the quantification of qualities, are universally recognized in modern scholarship. Also connected with university education are his Questiones on the Elements of Euclid, the basic and most widely read of the Greek mathematical classics. These Questiones cannot be regarded as a commentary, but rather examine problems suggested by Euclid's text. Among the subjects investigated are the quantitative change of qualities, e.g. of velocity, colours or heat, in time. There are penetrating analyses of infinite and infinitesimal qualities.
Author: Nicole Oresme
Publisher: Brill Archive
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains a English translation of Questions 1-21 with a bibliography.
Author: Hubertus Lambertus Ludovicus Busard
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 0
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 222
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction includes content information for thesis and its subsequent published paraphrase.
Author: Dan Burton
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9004153705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this critical edition of Nicole Oresme's 14th-century treatise on atmospheric refraction, Oresme uses optics and infinitesimals to help solve this vexing problem of astronomy, proposing that light travels along a curve through the atmosphere, centuries before Hooke and Newton.
Author: Sylvain Roudaut
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-12-28
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9004501894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this book is to analyze the problem of the intensity of forms in the late Middle Ages and to show how this debate eventually gave rise to a new metaphysical project in the 14th century: the project of quantifying the different types of perfections existing in the universe – that is the project of “measuring being”. Cet ouvrage se propose d’analyser l’histoire du débat relatif à l’intensité des formes au Moyen Âge, et de retracer la manière dont il conduisit au XIVe siècle à l’émergence d’un projet métaphysique nouveau : celui de quantifier les perfections contenues dans l’univers et, ainsi, de “mesurer l’être”.
Author: Vasilij Pavlovič Zoubov
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-03-28
Total Pages: 897
ISBN-13: 9004250255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOresme's commentary is one of the most relevant documents of the discussions at Paris University in the midst of the 14th Century. Original solutions concerning the main philosophical issues are associated with sharp criticism of the realist and nominalist positions.
Author: Frederick C. Copleston S.J.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Published: 1990-01-30
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0268161054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this classic work, Frederick C. Copleston, S.J., outlines the development of philosophical reflection in Christian, Islamic, and Jewish thought from the ancient world to the late medieval period. A History of Medieval Philosophy is an invaluable general introduction that also includes longer treatments of such leading thinkers as Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham.