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Aspall's commentary on
Physics poses questions that discuss crucial issues of Aristotle's natural philosophy: matter, form, nature, change, time, the infinite and the continuum, eternity of the world. This major source for studying the introduction of Aristotelianism to Oxford in the mid-13th century is edited in Latin with English translation.
List of contents
- QUAESTIONES SUPER PHYSICAM, LIBER VI (Recensio T)
- Tabula quaestionum / List of questions
- LIBER VI / BOOK VI
- APENDIX
- 1: QUAESTIONES SUPER PHYSICAM, LIBRI I-II (Recensio TC)
- 2: QUAESTIONES NON TRADITAE AB O
- 3: QUAESTIONES SUPER PHYSICAM, LIBER VI (Recensio L)
- 4: ANONYMUS (ASPALL?), QUAESTIONES SUPER PHYSICAM, LIBER V (MS T)
About the author
Cecilia Trifogli is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Fellow of the British Academy. She has published extensively on the medieval tradition of Aristotle’s natural philosophy and psychology. She is the author of a book on the English commentaries on the Physics (Oxford Physics in the Thirteenth Century, Brill 2000). She also works on the critical editions of medieval philosophical texts. For the Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi series, she edited Wylton’s Question on the Intellectual Soul (together with L. O. Nielsen and G. Trimble, ABMA 19) and Geoffrey of Aspall’s Questions on Aristotle’s Physics (together with S. Donati and J. Ashworth, ABMA 26-27).Cecilia Trifogli is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Fellow of the British Academy. She has published extensively on the medieval tradition of Aristotle’s natural philosophy and psychology. She is the author of a book on the English commentaries on the Physics (Oxford Physics in the Thirteenth Century, Brill 2000). She also works on the critical editions of medieval philosophical texts. For the Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi series, she edited Wylton’s Question on the Intellectual Soul (together with L. O. Nielsen and G. Trimble, ABMA 19) and Geoffrey of Aspall’s Questions on Aristotle’s Physics (together with S. Donati and J. Ashworth, ABMA 26-27).E. Jennifer Ashworth was Distinguished Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the British Academy Medieval Texts Editorial Committee. She was an expert in medieval and Renaissance philosophy and had contributed to a number of volumes in the Auctores Britannic Medii Aevi series. She died in 2024.
Summary
Aspall's commentary on Physics poses questions that discuss crucial issues of Aristotle's natural philosophy: matter, form, nature, change, time, the infinite and the continuum, eternity of the world. This major source for studying the introduction of Aristotelianism to Oxford in the mid-13th century is edited in Latin with English translation.
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...a rich and interesting book...This excellent Latin edition and lucid accompanying English translation will undoubtedly serve researchers fro generations to come.
