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On the threshold of exact science : selected writings of Anneliese Maier on late medieval natural philosophy / edited and translated with an introduction by Steven D. Sargent.

Maier, Anneliese, 1905-1971, author.; Sargent, Steven D.; Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter, 1930-1994, former owner.
1982
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Title
On the threshold of exact science : selected writings of Anneliese Maier on late medieval natural philosophy / edited and translated with an introduction by Steven D. Sargent.
Created/published
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.
Description
xiv, 173 p. ; 24 cm
Associated name
Maier, Anneliese, 1905-1971, author.
Sargent, Steven D.
Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter, 1930-1994, former owner.
Series statement
The Middle ages
Note
Includes index.
Bibliography, etc.
Bibliography: p. x-xiv.
Contents
The nature of motion
Causes, forces, and resistance
The concept of the function in fourteenth-century physics
The significance of the theory of impetus for Scholastic natural philosophy
Galileo and the Scholastic theory of impetus
The theory of the elements and the problem of their participation in compounds
The achievements of late Scholastic natural philosophy.
Series
Middle Ages series.
Place of creation/publication
United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Call number
Q124.97 .M3413 1982
Folger-specific note
Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs copy.

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