Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The concept of nature
  • Natural and compulsory movement
  • Galileo and the principle of inertia
  • The principle Omne quod movetur ab alio movetur in medieval physics
  • The specter of motor coniunctus in medieval physics
  • Motion in a void : Aquinas and Averroes
  • The celestial movers in medieval physics
  • The commentary of St. Thomas on the De caelo of Aristotle
  • Classification of the sciences in medieval thought
  • The evolution of scientific method
  • Medieval natural philosophy and modern science.