On the threshold of exact science : selected writings of Anneliese Maier on late medieval natural philosophy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maier, Anneliese, 1905-1971
Other Authors: Sargent, Steven D.
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The nature of motion
  • Causes, forces, and resistance
  • The concept of the function in fourteenth-century physics
  • The significance of the theory of impetus for Scholastic natural philosophy
  • Galileo and the Scholastic theory of impetus
  • The theory of the elements and the problem of their participation in compounds
  • The achievements of late Scholastic natural philosophy.