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Nicole Oresme on the Movements of Javelin Throwers: a Peripatetic Reading of De Configurationibus II, 37
(UCOPress, 2022)
In this contribution, I analyze a text by Oresme which gives a rather original explanation of the process of throwing a javelin and, more generally, of the actions of people who seem to have a kind ofnatural ability to ...
Nicole Oresme on Motion and the Atomization of the Continuum
(UCOPress, 2022)
As Aristotle classically defined it, continuity is the property of being infinitely divisible into ever-divisible parts. How has this conception been affected by the process of mathematization of motion during the 14th ...
The Concept of Motion in Jacques Legrand’s Philosophical Compendium
(UCOPress, 2022)
The following paper investigates the concept of motion in Jacques Legrand, a hitherto little-studied author of the early fifteenth century. Legrand, an important member of the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine, ...