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Reading Aristotle’s De sensu et sensato: Chrysostomus Javelli’s Discussion of Extramission and Intromission Theories of Vision
In this chapter, I will examine the place of the commentaries on Aristotle’s De sensu et sensato in Chrysostomus Javelli’s comprehensive exegetical...
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Buonamici, Francesco
Francesco Buonamici was professor of Philosophy at the University of Pisa for almost 40 years. His most important work is the treatise On Motion (De...
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Borri, Girolamo
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pisa when Galileo was a student there, Borri was a fierce advocate of Aristotelianism. He considered...
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Temporal Origins Essentialism and Gappy Existence in Marsilius of Inghen’s Quaestiones super libros De generatione et corruptione
In his commentary on Aristotle’s De generatione et corruptione Marsilius of Inghen defends the view—unusual in the Middle Ages—that there is no such...
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Javelli, Pomponazzi and the Immortality of the Soul: From the Solutiones (1519) to the Tractatus de animae humanae indeficientia (1536)
In the controversy raised in 1516 by Pietro Pomponazzi’s Tractatus de immortalitate animae, the Thomistic theologian Chrysostomus Javelli, regent of...
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Circa tertium librum De anima quaeritur primo utrum intellectus humanus sit virtus passiva ab intelligibili
Arguitur quod non, quia omne quod patiturmovetur, licet non e converso, ut habetur primo De generatione. Et Şomne quod movetur est divisibile,Ť ut...
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Harvey, William
The natural philosopher William Harvey was born in Folkestone on April 1, 1578. He studied at the Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge, and from...
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‘Febris non est morbus, sed bellum contra morbum’. A Study of Seventeenth-Century Theories of Fever
This paper offers a survey of the seventeenth-century debate on fevers, trying to elucidate the practical and the theoretical issues involved in the...
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Utrum sensibilia communia sint per se sensibilia
Arguitur quod non, quia illud non est per se sensibile quod non potest sentiri nisi per aliud vel cum alio quod sibi non determinat, immo cum quo...
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Utrum species qualitatum proprie et per se sensibilium habeant in medio vel in organo instantaneam generationem et multiplicationem.
Et arguitur quod sic, quia sicut videmus de lumine et de spe-ciebus colorum, ita debemus imaginari de speciebus aliarum qualitatum sensibilium, vel...
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Utrum numerus, magnitudo, figura, motus, et quies sint sensibilia communia et per se
Utrum numerus, magnitudo, figura, motus, et quies sint sensibilia communia et per se. Arguitur primo de numero quod non, quia dicitur quarto...
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Utrum oporteat praeter sensum communem ponere alios sensus interiores.
Arguitur quod sic, quia cum Aristoteles determinasset in secundo huius de sensibus exterioribus et de sensu communi, ipse conse- quenter determinavit...
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Parva Naturalia, Commentaries on Aristotle’s
The present entry gives an overview of the reception of Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia in the medieval West from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries....
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The Place of the Imagination
While Aristotle does reference the imagination, it is Aquinas who has worked out the proper place of imagining in mathematics—indeed, for him,...
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The Principle of Inertia in the History of Classical Mechanics
Making a history of the principle of inertia, as of any other principle or concept, is a complex but still possible operation. In this work it has...
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Utrum potentia motiva secundum locum sit vegetativa vel sensitiva vel intellectiva vel appetitiva vel aliqua alia potentia animae praeter istas.
Et arguitur quod non sit vegetativa, quia tunc conveniret plantis, quod est falsum, quia semper manent in eodem loco affixis terrae, nisi per...
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Émilie Du Châtelet and Newton’s Principia
Isaac Newton (1643–1727) was the first to explain that the cause of the movements of planets and comets is universal gravitation, which creates the...