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On the Threshold of Exact Science : Selected Writings of Anneliese Meier on Late Medieval Natural Philosophy /
Translated into English for the first time, the writings of the twentieth-century scholar Annelise Maier on late medieval natural philosophy are here made accessible to a broader audience. The seven selections represent both Maier's earlier and later works. Her perceptions as a trained philosop...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Bibliographical Notes and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- One. The Nature of Motion
- Two. Causes, Forces, and Resistance
- Three. The Concept of the Function in Fourteenth-Century Physics
- Four. The Significance of the Theory of Impetus for Scholastic Natural Philosophy
- Five. Galileo and the Scholastic Theory of Impetus
- Six. The Theory of the Elements and the Problem of Their Participation in Compounds
- Seven. The Achievements of Late Scholastic Natural Philosophy
- Index
- The Middle Ages.