The Oxford Physics in the Thirteenth Century (ca. 1250-1270) : Motion, Infinity, Place and Time / Cecilia Trifogli.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Trifogli, Cecilia, author.

Series:

• Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Volume 72.
• Studien und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters Series ; Volume 72

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Physics--Early works to 1800.
• Physics--Study and teaching (Higher)--England--Oxford--History--To 1500.
• Philosophy, Medieval.
• Aristotle. Physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, [2000]

Summary:

This volume deals with the reception of Aristotle's natural philosophy in Oxford between 1250 and 1270. It examines a group of ten unedited commentaries on Aristotle's Physics. This book consists of four main chapters devoted respectively to the concepts of motion, infinity, place, and time. Topics included are the question about the nature of motion, the discussion of the actual infinity in numbers, the relation between Aristotle's concepts of place in the Physics and in the Categories, the debate about the reality and the unicity of time. This book offers a comprehensive philosophical analysis of a hitherto unexplored phase of the Aristotelian natural philosophy in the Middle Ages.

Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Motion: Its Ontological Status
• 2. The Infinite
• 3. Place
• 4. Time
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index of Names
• Index of Manuscripts
• Index of Subjects.

Notes:

• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Trifogli, Cecilia Oxford Physics in the Thirteenth Century

ISBN:

9789004453005

OCLC:

1321791467

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004453005 DOI