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The beginning of the fourteenth century saw the flowering, in the universities of Oxford, of new reflections in natural philosophy, in particular on the occasion of questions posed by the reading of Aristotle’s treatises, such as the composition of the continuum, the determination of the rapidity of movements, the quantification of qualities, reaction, movement in a vacuum. The anonymous author of the treatise De sex inconvenientibus is part of this tradition, which will remain alive until the emergence of classical science. He takes up some of the themes of the Oxford masters: determination of the causes and effects of different types of movement, demonstration of the mean degree theorem, measurement of the intensification and remission of qualities, possibility of reaction, discussions around the first instant of change. He is also interested in magnetism, the influence of the stars on the sublunar world, colors or light.
:: Vrin, Textes philosophiques du Moyen-Age, XXVI
:: 386 p., September 2022
:: ISBN 978-2-7116-3022-6
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