On the threshold of exact science
Subtitle: selected writings of Anneliese Maier on late medieval natural philosophy
By: edited and translated with an introduction by Steven D. Sargent.
Contributors: Sargent, Steven D.
Series: The Middle ages
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Science, Medieval.; Philosophy, Medieval.
Notes: Bibliography: p. x-xiv.
Includes index.
Table of contents: value: The nature of motion; value: Causes, forces, and resistance; value: The concept of the function in fourteenth-century physics; value: The significance of the theory of impetus for Scholastic natural philosophy; value: Galileo and the Scholastic theory of impetus; value: The theory of the elements and the problem of their participation in compounds; value: The achievements of late Scholastic natural philosophy.