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Author:   Daniel A. Di Liscia ,  Edith D. Sylla
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   34
Weight:   0.943kg
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9789004499829

ISBN 10:   9004499822
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   02 June 2022
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Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction  Daniel A. Di Liscia 1 Thomas Wylton on the Ceasing of an Instant of Time  Cecilia Trifogli 2 The New Interpretation of Aristotle: Richard Kilvington, Thomas Bradwardine, and the New Rule of Motion  Elżbieta Jung 3 The Opuscula de motu Ascribed to Richard Swineshead: The Testimony of the Ongoing Development of the Oxford Calculators’ Science of Motion  Robert Podkoński 4 Calculations in Thomas Bradwardine’s De causa dei, Book I  Edit Anna Lukács 5 The Calculators on the Insolubles: Bradwardine, Kilvington, Heytesbury, Swyneshed, and Dumbleton  Stephen Read 6 The Influence of the Oxford Calculatores on the Understanding of Local Motion: The Example of the Tractatus de sex inconvenientibus  Sabine Rommevaux-Tani 7 Wyclif, the Black Sheep of the Oxford Calculators  Mark Thakkar 8 On the Reception of English Logic at Universities of Central Europe: Helmoldus de Zoltwedel (Prague, Leipzig) on the Liar-Paradox  Harald Berger 9 Blasius of Parma on the Calculation of the Variation of Qualities and Aristotelian Physics  Joël Biard 10 The Calculators Tradition in Oresme’s De visione stellarum  Aníbal Szapiro 11 Perfections and Latitudes: The Development of the Calculators’ Tradition and the Geometrisation of Metaphysics and Theology  Daniel A. Di Liscia 12 Decline of the Calculators in Paris c. 1500: Humanism and Print  Richard Oosterhoff 13 Some Aspects of the ‘Rules’ of motus difformis in Angelo da Fossambruno’s Commentary on Heytesbury’s De tribus praedicamentis  Fabio Seller 14 Leibniz and the Calculators  Edith Dudley Sylla Manuscripts Bibliography Index Nominum

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Daniel A. Di Liscia (Ph.D. 2003), is Lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany), at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. He worked on the edition of Copernicus and Kepler, and published several papers on the Oxford Calculators, in particular on the latitude of forms. Edith D. Sylla (Ph.D. 1971) is Professor Emerita at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina). She works on the history of mathematics, physics, and their interrelations from the late Middle Ages to the early eighteenth century.

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