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" On the threshold of exact science : "
edited and translated with an introduction by Steven D. Sargent.
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BL
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843743
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| Main Entry
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Maier, Anneliese,1905-1971.
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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.
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Philadelphia :: University of Pennsylvania Press,, 1982.
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| Series Statement
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The Middle ages
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xiv, 173 pages ;; 24 cm.
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0812278313
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: 9780812278316
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Includes bibliographical references (pages x-xiv) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Philosophy, Medieval.
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Science, Medieval.
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Philosophy, Medieval.
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Science, Medieval.
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| Dewey Classification
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509/.02
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Q124.97.M3413 1982
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Sargent, Steven D.
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