John Buridan, Quaestiones super octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis (secundum ultimam lecturam) (History of Science and Medicine Library / Medieval and ... Science, 55/27) (English and Latin Edition)

John Buridan (d. circa 1360) was one of the most talented and influential philosophers of the later Middle Ages. He spent his career as a master in the Arts Faculty at the University of Paris, producing commentaries and independent treatises on logic, metaphysics, natural philosophy, and ethics. His Questions Commentary on the eight books of Aristotle's Physics is the most important witness to Buridan's teachings in the field of natural philosophy. The commentary was widely read during the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This volume presents the first critical edition of books III and IV of the final redaction of Buridan's Questions Commentary on the Physics. The critical edition of the Latin text is accompanied by a detailed guide to the contents of Buridan's questions ‎Contents 8 ‎Introduction (Bakker -Streijger) 12 ‎Guide to the Text (Sylla) 21 ‎1. Introduction 21 ‎2. Authors of Questions on Books III and IV of the Physics Related to Buridan’s Questions 27 ‎Group 1a: Commentaries Written before the 1320s 27 ‎Group 1b: Commentaries Written in the Period Just before Buridan 32 ‎Group 2: Works of Buridan’s Approximate Contemporaries in Paris 36 ‎Group 3: Commentaries Written Some Decades or More after Buridan 38 ‎3. The Questions on Book III 42 ‎3.1. Buridan’s Questions on Motion: Questions III.1–13 45 ‎3.2. Buridan’s Questions on Infinity: Questions III.14–19 115 ‎4. The Questions on Book IV 154 ‎4.1. Buridan’s Questions on Place: Questions IV.1–6 155 ‎4.2. Buridan’s Questions on the Vacuum: Questions IV.7–11 175 ‎4.3. Buridan’s Questions on Time: Questions IV.12–16 194 ‎5. Conclusion (and Warning to the Reader) 210 ‎Bibliography 212 ‎Conspectus siglorum et compendiorum 221 Tabula quaestionum tertii libri Physicorum 223 Utrum necesse sit ignorato motu ignorare naturam 227 Utrum ad alterationem requiratur fluxus distinctus ab alterabili et a qualitate secundum quam est alteratio 234 Utrum qualitates contrariae, ut albedo et nigredo, caliditas et frigiditas, possint se compati simul in eodem subiecto secundum aliquos gradus ipsarum 240 Utrum qualitas secundum quam est alteratio per se et proprie dicta, continua et temporalis, acquiratur tota simul vel pars post partem 256 Utrum in alteratione pars qualitatis quae prius acquiritur maneat cum parte quae posterius acquiritur 264 Utrum motus localis sit vel utrum haec sit vera ‘motus localis est’ 279 Utrum motus localis sit res distincta a loco et ab eo quod localiter movetur 292 Utrum de necessitate motus localis sit habere terminos positivos praeter fluxum, scilicet terminum a quo et terminum ad quem 300 Utrum motus sit de essentia termini ad quem est 310 Utrum omnis motus sit actus entis in potentia 318 Utrum definitio motus sit bona in qua dicitur quod motus est actus entis in potentia secundum quod in potentia 323 Utrum omnis motus sit subiective in mobili vel movente vel in utroque 329 Utrum omnis actio sit passio et econtra 334 Utrum sit aliquod corpus sensibile actu infinitum 341 Utrum sit aliqua magnitudo infinita 352 Utrum linea aliqua gyrativa sit infinita 361 Utrum omni numero sit numerus maior 372 Utrum in quolibet continuo infinitae sint partes 385 Utrum possibile sit infinitam esse magnitudinem et in infinitas partes lineam esse divisam 405 Tabula quaestionum quarti libri Physicorum 420 Utrum omnis locus sit aequalis locato suo 423 Utrum locus sit terminus corporis continentis 430 Utrum locus sit immobilis 441 Utrum definitio loci quam assignat Aristoteles sit bona, qua dicitur ‘locus est terminus corporis continentis immobilis primum’ 452 Utrum terra sit in aqua sive in superficie aquae tamquam in loco suo proprio et naturali 457 Utrum ultima sphaera, scilicet suprema, sit in loco 472 Utrum possibile sit vacuum esse 477 Utrum possibile sit esse vacuum per aliquam potentiam 486 Utrum in motibus gravium et levium ad sua loca naturalia tota successio proveniat ex resistentia medii 490 Utrum, si vacuum esset, grave moveretur in eo 511 Utrum rarefactio et condensatio sint possibiles vel utrum possibile sit aliquid rarefieri vel condensari 518 Utrum tempus sit motus 525 Utrum definitio temporis in qua dicitur ‘tempus est numerus motus secundum prius et posterius’ sit bona 532 Utrum cuiuslibet motus tempus sit mensura 539 Utrum quies mensuretur tempore 556 Utrum tempus esset, quamvis non esset aliqua anima intellectiva 562 ‎Index locorum 568 ‎Index codicum manu scriptorum 572 ‎Index nominum 574 Edited By Michiel Streijger, Paul J.j.m. Bakker ; A Guide To The Text By Edith D. Sylla. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Text In Latin; Introduction And Guide To The Text In English.