Maistre Nicole Oresme
Author : Aristotle
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Didactic literature
ISBN :
Author : Aristotle
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Didactic literature
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Author : Dan Burton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 9004153705
In this critical edition of Nicole Oresme's 14th-century treatise on atmospheric refraction, Oresme uses optics and infinitesimals to help solve this vexing problem of astronomy, proposing that light travels along a curve through the atmosphere, centuries before Hooke and Newton.
Author : Aurora Panzica
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9004463100
Nicole Oresme was one of the most original and influential thinkers of the fourteenth century. He is best known for his mathematical discoveries, his economic theories, as well as his vernacular translations of cosmological and ethical texts that were undertaken at the request of King Charles V. This volume sheds light on the beginning of Oresme's scientific activity at the University of Paris (ca. 1340 – ca. 1350), a period of his intellectual career about which little is known. Over the course of this decade, Oresme lectured on many Aristotelian texts on natural philosophy, such as the Physics, On the Heavens, On generation and corruption, Meteorology, and On the Soul. Oresme's commentaries on Aristotle's Meteorology count among his only unpublished texts. This volume presents the first critical edition of books I-II.10 of the second redaction of Oresme's Questions on Meteorology. The edition is preceded by a historical and philological introduction that discusses the context of Oresme’s scientific career and examines the manuscript tradition.
Author : Nicole Oresme
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Euclid's Elements
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Contains a English translation of Questions 1-21 with a bibliography.
Author : Edward Grant
Publisher :
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 30,91 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Algorithms
ISBN :
Author : Joel Kaye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1107028450
This book is a groundbreaking history of balance, exploring how a new model of equilibrium emerged during the medieval period.
Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 1996-07-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521565097
Edward Grant describes the extraordinary range of themes, ideas, and arguments that constituted scholastic cosmology for approximately five hundred years, from around 1200 to 1700. Primary emphasis is placed on the world as a whole, what might lie beyond it, and the celestial region, which extended from the Moon to the outermost convex surface of the cosmos.
Author : Nicole Oresme
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Political science
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Author : Bodleian Library
Publisher :
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780199519057
Author : Ana Sáez-Hidalgo
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 184384320X
John Gower's great poem, the Confessio Amantis, was the first work of English literature translated into any European language. Occasioned by the existence in Spain of fifteenth-century Portuguese and Spanish manuscripts of the Confessio, the nineteen essays brought together here represent new and original approaches to Gower's role in Anglo-Iberian literary relations. They include major studies of the palaeography of the Iberian manuscripts; of the ownership history of the Portuguese Confessio manuscript; of the glosses of Gowerian manuscripts; and of the manuscript of the Yale Confessio Amantis. Other essays situate the translations amidst Anglo-Spanish relations generally in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; examine possible Spanish influences on Gower's writing; and speculate on possible providers of the Confessio to Philippa, daughter of John of Gaunt and queen of Portugal. Further chapters broaden the scope of the volume. Amongst other topics, they look at Gower's use of Virgilian/Dantean models; classical gestures in the Castilian translation; Gower's conscious contrasting of epic ideals and courtly romance; nuances of material goods and the idea of "the good" in the Confessio; Marxian aesthetics, Balzac, and Gowerian narrative in late medieval trading culture between England and Iberia; reading the Confessio through the lens of gift exchange; literary form in Gower's later Latin poems; Gower and Alain Chartier as international initiators of a new "public poetry"; and the modern sales history of manuscript and early printed copies of the Confessio, and what it reveals about literary trends. Ana S ez Hidalgo is Associate Professor at the University of Valladolid, Spain; R.F. Yeager is Professor of English and World Languages and chair of the department at the University of West Florida. Contributors: Mar a Bull n-Fern ndez, David R. Carlson, Si n Echard, A.S.G. Edwards, Robert R. Edwards, Tiago Vi la de Faria, Andrew Galloway, Fernando Galv n, Marta Mar a Guti rrez Rodr guez, Mauricio Herrero Jim nez, Ethan Knapp, Roger A. Ladd, Alberto L zaro, Mar a Luisa L pez-Vidriero Abell , Matthew McCabe, Alastair J. Minnis, Clara Pascual-Argente, Tamara Para A. Shailor, Winthrop Wetherbee