The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages by Edward Grant

Author:Edward Grant [Grant, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Medieval natural philosophy, Aristotelians, and Aristotelianism

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BECAUSE Aristotelian natural philosophy is the major emphasis in this volume, our discussion of it must necessarily encompass Aristotle’s natural books (libri naturales), as described in chapter 3, and the medieval commentaries and questions on those works. The natural books of Aristotle were far from a thorough, well-rounded, coherent, and systematic description and analysis of the physical world. But in those treatises, a wealth of topics and ideas were included, and a remarkable breadth of coverage. The natural books were the best available guides for the study of the universe, which is why they served as the fundamental texts for natural philosophy in the universities of the Middle Ages. It was that natural philosophy that functioned as the world view of the Middle Ages, a world view that was embodied in a special kind of literature – the questions literature – that was peculiar to the Latin Middle Ages and to the medieval university.

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