Quaestiones Super Geometriam Euclidis
Author: Nicole Oresme
Publisher: Brill Archive
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains a English translation of Questions 1-21 with a bibliography.
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Nicole Oresme, Questiones Super Geometriam Euclidis
Author: Nicole Oresme
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
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.
A Source Book in Medieval Science
Author: Edward Grant
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 890
ISBN-13: 9780674823600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Source Book explores a millennium of European scientific thought accompanied by critical commentary and annotation; nearly half the selections appear for the first time in the vernacular. Representing "science" in the medieval sense, selections include alchemy, astrology, logic, and theology as well as mathematics, physics, and biology.
La mesure de l’être
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”.
Nicole Oresme, Questiones super Physicam (Books I-VII)
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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.
Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-06-24
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9004696490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCalculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century addresses a moment in the history of ethics, when discoveries in natural philosophy blurred the boundary between the possible and the impossible, and made the impossible a preferred territory in discussions on practical reason. The volume studies the onset and expansion of a new movement in constructing ethics, as the methods, arguments, and cases adopted from logic and natural philosophy came to be extensively applied at Oxford and swiftly disseminated among other Oxonians eventually making their way outside Oxford. It shows how the Oxford Calculators triggered a unique and durable transformation in ethics. Contributors are Pascale Bermon, Valeria Buffon, Michael W. Dunne, Marek Gensler, Simon Kemp, Edit A. Lukács, Monika Michałowska, and Andrea Nannini.
Measure of a Different Greatness
Author: Anne Davenport
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-11
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9004452877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines a selection of late medieval works devoted to the intensive infinite in order to draw a comprehensive picture of the context, character and importance of scholastic efforts to reason philosophically about divine infinity. As Dominican masters face Franciscan 'spirituals' and as university-trained theologians face evangelical laymen, the purpose and meaning of divine infinity shift, reflecting a basic tension between the Church's Petrine vocation for geopolitical orthodoxy and its more Pauline mission to promote Christian orthopraxis. The first part of the book traces the scholastic defense of divine infinity from the holocaust of Montségur up to John Duns Scotus. The second part examines the semiotic breakthrough initiated by William of Ockham and the subsequent penetration of infinist theory into a wide variety of disciplines.
Exercises in (Mathematical) Style
Author: John McCleary
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1470447835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does style mean in mathematics? Style is both how one does something and how one communicates what was done. In this book, the author investigates the worlds of the well-known numbers, the binomial coefficients. The author follows the example of Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style. Offering the reader 99 stories in various styles. The book celebrates the joy of mathematics and the joy of writing mathematics by exploring the rich properties of this familiar collection of numbers. For any one interested in mathematics, from high school students on up.
The Development of Mathematics in Medieval Europe
Author: Menso Folkerts
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-10-28
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1040236693
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Development of Mathematics in Medieval Europe complements the previous collection of articles by Menso Folkerts, Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics, and deals with the development of mathematics in Europe from the 12th century to about 1500. In the 12th century European learning was greatly transformed by translations from Arabic into Latin. Such translations in the field of mathematics and their influence are here described and analysed, notably al-Khwarizmi's "Arithmetic" -- through which Europe became acquainted with the Hindu-Arabic numerals -- and Euclid's "Elements". Five articles are dedicated to Johannes Regiomontanus, perhaps the most original mathematician of the 15th century, and to his discoveries in trigonometry, algebra and other fields. The knowledge and application of Euclid's "Elements" in 13th- and 15th-century Italy are discussed in three studies, while the last article treats the development of algebra in South Germany around 1500, where much of the modern symbolism used in algebra was developed.
Philosophy in the West
Author: Eugene F. Bales
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2008-10-07
Total Pages: 701
ISBN-13: 146280523X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPHILOSOPHY IN THE WEST: MEN, WOMEN, RELIGION, SCIENCE This single volume history of philosophy in the West is distinguished by its wide coverage of figures, by its inclusion of well over thirty women, and by its substantive discussion of the historical background of each epoch. Each chapter begins with an overview of the period and concludes with a lengthy bibliography of both primary and secondary texts. There is a useful glossary of terms at the end of the book. Philosophy in the West is intended as a general guide to those taking courses in the history of philosophy, humanities, and related areas. It will also be of interest to those in the fields of theology, philosophy, feminism, and historical studies.
