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From an epistemological perspective, the "discovery of nature" in the 12th century represents a fundamental change in the speculative understanding of nature. It provides an important philosophical impetus for the wider assimiliation of the Aristotelian corpus. At the same time, it leads to the ...
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The present work contains a critical edition, translation, and study of the Summa perfectionis of Pseudo-Geber, the most influential of the many texts of medieval alchemy. The study addresses such questions as the author's identity, his corpuscular theory of matter, the influence of the Summa, ...
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A detailed analysis of the geocentric distances of the sun and moon as found in Ptolemy's Amalgest, in both the manuscript version and the Nuremberg edition of Copernicus' De Revolutionibus, and in a manuscript of Erasmus Reinhold ("Commentarius in opus Revolutionum Copernici") in which he ...