On the Threshold of Exact Science: Selected Writings of Anneliese Meier on Late Medieval Natural Philosophy
Translated into English for the first time, the writings of the twentieth-century scholar Annelise Maier on late medieval natural philosophy are here made accessible to a broader audience. The seven selections represent both Maier's earlier and later works. Her perceptions as a trained philosopher, coupled with her familiarity with the full range of primary source material, result in these rare insights into the historical importance of medieval science.
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On the Threshold of Exact Science: Selected Writings of Anneliese Meier on Late Medieval Natural Philosophy
Translated into English for the first time, the writings of the twentieth-century scholar Annelise Maier on late medieval natural philosophy are here made accessible to a broader audience. The seven selections represent both Maier's earlier and later works. Her perceptions as a trained philosopher, coupled with her familiarity with the full range of primary source material, result in these rare insights into the historical importance of medieval science.
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On the Threshold of Exact Science: Selected Writings of Anneliese Meier on Late Medieval Natural Philosophy

On the Threshold of Exact Science: Selected Writings of Anneliese Meier on Late Medieval Natural Philosophy

On the Threshold of Exact Science: Selected Writings of Anneliese Meier on Late Medieval Natural Philosophy

On the Threshold of Exact Science: Selected Writings of Anneliese Meier on Late Medieval Natural Philosophy

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Translated into English for the first time, the writings of the twentieth-century scholar Annelise Maier on late medieval natural philosophy are here made accessible to a broader audience. The seven selections represent both Maier's earlier and later works. Her perceptions as a trained philosopher, coupled with her familiarity with the full range of primary source material, result in these rare insights into the historical importance of medieval science.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780812278316
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date: 03/29/1982
Series: Anniversary Collection
Edition description: Reprint 2016 ed.
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Steven D. Sargent is Professor of History at Union College.

Table of Contents

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

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