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Book SynopsisThis book offers an entirely new perspective on the alleged incompatibility between Aristotelian philosophy and the mathematical methods and principles that form the basis of modern science. It surveys the tradition of the Oxford Calculators from its beginnings in the fourteenth century until Leibniz and the philosophy of the seventeenth century and explores how their various techniques of quantification expanded the conceptual and methodological limits of Aristotelianism.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Daniel A. Di Liscia 1 Thomas Wylton on the Ceasing of an Instant of Time Cecilia Trifogli 2 The New Interpretation of Aristotle: Richard Kilvington, Thomas Bradwardine, and the New Rule of Motion Elżbieta Jung 3 The Opuscula de motu Ascribed to Richard Swineshead: The Testimony of the Ongoing Development of the Oxford Calculators’ Science of Motion Robert Podkoński 4 Calculations in Thomas Bradwardine’s De causa dei, Book I Edit Anna Lukács 5 The Calculators on the Insolubles: Bradwardine, Kilvington, Heytesbury, Swyneshed, and Dumbleton Stephen Read 6 The Influence of the Oxford Calculatores on the Understanding of Local Motion: The Example of the Tractatus de sex inconvenientibus Sabine Rommevaux-Tani 7 Wyclif, the Black Sheep of the Oxford Calculators Mark Thakkar 8 On the Reception of English Logic at Universities of Central Europe: Helmoldus de Zoltwedel (Prague, Leipzig) on the Liar-Paradox Harald Berger 9 Blasius of Parma on the Calculation of the Variation of Qualities and Aristotelian Physics Joël Biard 10 The Calculators Tradition in Oresme’s De visione stellarum Aníbal Szapiro 11 Perfections and Latitudes: The Development of the Calculators’ Tradition and the Geometrisation of Metaphysics and Theology Daniel A. Di Liscia 12 Decline of the Calculators in Paris c. 1500: Humanism and Print Richard Oosterhoff 13 Some Aspects of the ‘Rules’ of motus difformis in Angelo da Fossambruno’s Commentary on Heytesbury’s De tribus praedicamentis Fabio Seller 14 Leibniz and the Calculators Edith Dudley Sylla Manuscripts Bibliography Index Nominum
