Research Catalog

Title

Galileo, the Jesuits, and the medieval Aristotle / William A. Wallace.

Author

Wallace, William A.

Publication

Hampshire, Great Britain : Variorum ; Brookfield, Vt. : Gower, c1991.

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Details

Description

[xiv, 336 p.] : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Collected studies series ; CS346

Uniform Title

Collected studies ; CS346.

Subject

• Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
• Aristotle
• Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
• Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280
• Jesuits > Italy > History
• Science, Medieval

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Aristotelian influences on Galileo's thought -- II. The problem of causality in Galileo's science -- III. Aristotle and Galileo: the uses of Hupothesis (Suppositio) in scientific reasoning -- IV. Galileo and Aristotle in the Dialogo -- V. Randall Redivivus: Galileo and the Paduan Aristotelians -- VI. The early Jesuits and the heritage of Domingo de Soto -- VII. The problem of apodictic proof in early seventeenth-century mechanics: Galileo, Guevara, and the Jesuits -- VIII. Science and philosophy at the Collegio Romano in the time of Benedetti -- IX. Albertus Magnus on suppositional necessity in the natural sciences -- X. The scientific methodology of St. Albert the Great -- XI. St. Thomas's conception of natural philosophy and its method -- XII. Aquinas on the temporal relation between cause and effect -- XIII. Thomas Aquinas on dialectics and rhetoric -- XIV. Aristotelian science and rhetoric in transition: the Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- XV. The intelligiblity of nature: a neo-Aristotelian view.

ISBN

0860782972

LCCN

^^^91022929^//r92

OCLC

• 70310814
• SCSB-10845238

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library