{"product_id":"quantifying-aristotle-the-impact-spread-and-decline-of-the-calculatores-tradition-9789004499829","title":"Quantifying Aristotle: The Impact, Spread and Decline of the Calculatores Tradition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210833781079,"sku":"9789004499829","price":152.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/quantifying-aristotle-the-impact-spread-and-decline-of-the-calculatores-tradition-9789004499829","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}