Texts and contexts in ancient and medieval science : studies on the occasion of John E. Murdoch's seventieth birthday / edited by Edith Sylla and Michael McVaugh
- Bib ID:
- 108669
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Leiden ; New York : Brill, 1997
- xxxii, 330 pages, [5] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9004108238 (acid-free paper)
- Series:
- Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 78.
- Full contents:
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- Editor's Introduction / Edith D. Sylla and Michael R. McVaugh
- Publications of John E. Murdoch
- I. Eudoxan Astronomy and Aristotelian Holism in the Physics / Jean De Groot
- II. The Latin Sources of Quadrans vetus, and What They Imply for Its Authorship and Date / Wilbur R. Knorr
- III. Roger Bacon's De laudibus mathematicae: A Preliminary Study / George Molland
- IV. What Really Happened on 7 March 1277? Bishop Tempier's Condemnation and Its Institutional Context / J. M. M. H. Thijssen
- V. Armengaud Blaise as a Translator of Galen / Michael R. McVaugh
- VI. The Meanings of Natural Diversity: Marco Polo on the "Division" of the World / Katharine Park
- VII. Thomas Bradwardine's De continuo and the Structure of Fourteenth-Century Learning / Edith D. Sylla
- VIII. Nicole Oresme, Aristotle's On the Heavens, and the Court of Charles V / Edward Grant.
- IX. Charles V, Nicole Oresme, and Christine de Pizan: Unities and Uses of Knowledge in Fourteenth-Century France / Joan Cadden
- X. Academic Consulting in Fifteenth-Century Vienna: The Case of Astrology / Michael H. Shank
- XI. Domingo de Soto's "Laws" of Motion: Text and Context / William A. Wallace
- XII. Art, Nature, and Experiment among Some Aristotelian Alchemists / William R. Newman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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