Medieval and Early Modern Science

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Nicole Oresme's De visione stellarum (On Seeing the Stars)

Dan Burton

In this critical edition of Nicole Oresme's 14th-century treatise on atmospheric refraction, Oresme uses optics and infinitesimals to help solve this vexing problem of astronomy, proposing that light travels along a curve through the atmosphere, centuries before Hooke and Newton.

€146.00$189.00

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Jean Fernel's On the Hidden Causes of Things

Edited by John M. Forrester and John Henry

An annotated translation of Jean Fernel’s On the Hidden Causes of Things (1542). A major innovatory work in Renaissance natural philosophy and medicine, and a crucially important source for understanding the notion of occult qualities, with a scholarly introduction.

€110.00$142.00

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The Dynamics of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century

Edited by Cees Leijenhorst, Christoph Lüthy and Johannes M.M.H. Thijssen

€110.00$142.00

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The Limits of Influence

Steven vanden Broecke

This is a case study of astrology's changing status as an academic discipline in the sixteenth century. It provides fascinating new insights in the practice of Renaissance astrology, its social position, and its profound impact on the changes in early modern European science.

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The Mechanization of Aristotelianism

Cees Leijenhorst

An acclaimed study - now available for the first time in English - investigates the relation between Thomas Hobbes’ natural philosophy as represented in his Prima Philosophia (the second part of De corpore (1655)) and the various currents of Renaissance and early modern Aristotelianism.

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9789004115149

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The Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy of John Buridan

Edited by J.M.M.H. Thijssen and Jack Zupko

A collection of original articles by a dozen scholars on the work of the influential 14th-century philosopher John Buridan, this book extends Buridan's reputation in logic to metaphysics and natural philosophy, showing how he brought a fresh approach to solving some of the classic problems of ...

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Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories

Edited by Christoph Lüthy, John E. Murdoch and William R. Newman

This book on medieval and early modern corpuscular matter theories presents the research results of nineteen scholars, who show that his modern model of matter has some of its roots in physical, medical, mathematical, alchemical, and theological conceptions developed in the Middle Ages.