Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties

by Helen S. Lang

Book Overview

This book considers the concepts that lay at the heart of natural philosophy and physics from the time of Aristotle until the fourteenth century. The first part presents Aristotelian ideas and the second part presents the interpretation of these ideas by Philoponus, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, John Buridan, and Duns Scotus.

Across the eight chapters, the problems and texts from Aristotle that set the stage for European natural philosophy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791410846
• ISBN13: 9780791410844
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"