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Robert Halifax, an Oxford Calculator of Shadows
(UCOPress, 2022)
In his commentary on Lombardʼs Sentences, question 1, Robert Halifax OFM presents a remarkably original and inventive optical argument. It compares two pairs of luminous and opaque bodies with two shadow cones until the ...
The Paradoxes Produced by the Different Ways of Determining the Rapidity of Motion in the Anonymous Treatise De sex inconvenientibus
(UCOPress, 2022)
The anonymous treatise De sex inconvenientibus is a good example of the calculatores’ approach when dealing with motion. It is organized around four main questions relating to the determination of rapidity in four kinds ...
The Concept of Motion in Late Medieval Philosophy
(UCOPress, 2022)
Intermediate Parts of Motion According to Ramon Llull: Some Remarks About His Medieval Background
(UCOPress, 2022)
Following Aristotle, Averroes rejects atomism and the infinite division of geometric lines. Thus, his arguments deal with the continuity and contiguity of the non-atomic parts of motion. He vindicates the perceptual aspect ...
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 ...