Method and Order in Renaissance Philosophy of Nature

The Aristotle Commentary Tradition

Daniel A. Di Liscia, Eckhard Kessler

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780860786665
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351917957
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

The volume results from a seminar sponsored by the 'Foundation for Intellectual History' at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, in 1992. Starting with the theory of regressus as displayed in its most developed form by William Wallace, these papers enter the vast field of the Renaissance discussion on method as such in its historical and systematical context. This is confined neither to the notion of method in the strict sense, nor to the Renaissance in its exact historical limits, nor yet to the Aristotelian tradition as a well defined philosophical school, but requires a new scholarly approach. Thus - besides Galileo, Zabarella and their circles, which are regarded as being crucial for the 'emergence of modern science' in the end of the 16th century - the contributors deal with the ancient and medieval origins as well as with the early modern continuity of the Renaissance concepts of method and with 'non-regressive' methodologies in the various approaches of Renaissance natural philosophy, including the Lutheran and Calvinist traditions.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Philoponus and Simplicius on Tekmeriodic Proof
• El "realismo" de principios del S. XII y el "eclecticismo" platónico-aristotélico: sobre los universales y la teoría de la indifferentia
• Aristotle and Averroes on Method in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: The "Oxford Gloss" to the Physics and Pietro D'Afeltro's Expositio Proemii Averroys
• Method in the Aristotelian Tradition: Taking a Second Look
• Velocidad quo ad effectus y velocidad quo ad causas: la tradición de los calculadores y la metodología aristotélica
• Alonso De La Veracruz as an Aristotelian Natural Philosopher
• Keeping Order in the School of Padua: Jacopo Zabarella and Francesco Piccolomini on the Offices of Philosophy
• The Foundation of an Autonomous Natural Philosophy: Zabarella on the Classification of Arts and Sciences
• Galileo's Regressive Methodology, its Prelude and its Sequel
• Galileo and the Mixed Sciences
• Flaminio Papazzoni: un aristotelico bolognese maestro di Federico Borromeo e corrispondente di Galileo
• Principle and Method: Francesco Buonamici's Version of Renaissance Aristotelianism
• Non-Regressive Methods (and the Emergence of Modern Science)
• Vinculum concordiae: Lutheran Method by Philip Melanchthon
• Kepler's Epistemology
• Latin Aristotelianism and the Seventeenth-Century Calvinist Theory of Scientific Method
• Sturm, Morhof and Brucker vs. Aristotle: Three Eclectic Natural Philosophers view the Aristotelian Method
• Index of Names