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Economy and nature in the fourteenth century : money, market exchange, and the emergence of scientific thought /

This book provides perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought. Historians of medieval science have hesitated to step outside the sphere of intellectual culture in their search for factors influencing proto-scient...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kaye, Joel, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Colección:Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 35.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Economic background: monetization and monetary consciousness in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
  • Aristotelian model of money and economic exchange
  • Earliest Latin commentaries on the Aristotelian model of economic exchange: Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas
  • Models of economic equality and equalization in the thirteenth century
  • Evolving models of money and market exchange in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
  • Linking the scholastic model of money as measure to proto-scientific innovations in fourteenth-century natural philosophy
  • Linking scholastic models of monetized exchange to innovations in fourteenth-century mathematics and natural philosophy.