On the threshold of exact science : selected writings of Anneliese Maier on late medieval natural philosophy /
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| Language: | English German |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1982.
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| Series: | Middle Ages series.
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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.