Nicole Oresme, Questiones in meteorologica de ultima lectura, recensio parisiensis
Subtitle: study of the manuscript tradition and critical edition of books I-II.10
By: edited by Aurora Panzica
Series: Medieval and early modern philosophy and science -- volume 32; History of science and medicine library -- v. 32
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9789004461406; 9789004463103
Subjects: Manuscripts; Meteorology; Early works to 1800; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern); Meteorologica (Aristotle)
Work titles: Questiones in meteorologica de ultima lectura, recensio parisiensis
Description: "Nicole Oresme was one of the most original and influential thinkers of the fourteenth century. He is best known for his mathematical discoveries, his economic theories, as well as his vernacular translations of cosmological and ethical texts that were undertaken at the request of King Charles V. This volume sheds light on the beginning of Oresme's scientific activity at the University of Paris (ca. 1340 - ca. 1350), a period of his intellectual career about which little is known. Over the course of this decade, Oresme lectured on many Aristotelian texts on natural philosophy, such as the Physics, On the Heavens, On generation and corruption, Meteorology, and On the Soul. Oresme's commentaries on Aristotle's Meteorology count among his only unpublished texts. This volume presents the first critical edition of books I-II.10 of the second redaction of Oresme's Questions on Meteorology. The edition is preceded by a historical and philological introduction that discusses the context of Oresme's scientific career and examines the manuscript tradition"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The strange case of the second redaction of Oresme's Questions on Meteorology; title: The manuscript tradition of the second redaction of Nicole Oresme's Questions on Meteorology : manuscript descriptions and a study of their relationships; title: Nicole Oresme, Questiones in Meteorologica de ultima lectura, recensio parisiensis. Liber I ; Liber II.