On the threshold of exact science : selected writings of Anneliese Maier on late medieval natural philosophy

Author(s)

• Maier, Anneliese
• Sargent, Steven D.

Bibliographic Information

On the threshold of exact science : selected writings of Anneliese Maier on late medieval natural philosophy

edited and translated with an introduction by Steven D. Sargent

（Middle Ages series）

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982

Note

Bibliography: p. ix-xiv

Includes index

Contents of Works

• The nature of motion
• Causes, forces, and resistance
• The concept of the function in fourteenth-century physics
• The significance of the theory of impetus for Scholastic natural philosophy
• Galileo and the Scholastic theory of impetus
• The theory of the elements and the problem of their participation in compounds
• The achievements of late Scholastic natural philosophy

• NCID: BA12661105
• ISBN:
  • 0812278313
• LCCN: 81043524
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ger
• Place of Publication: Philadelphia
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 173 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : Q124.97
  • DC19 : 509/.02
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Science, Medieval -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : Philosophy, Medieval -- Addresses, essays, lectures
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00322408