Quantifying Aristotle - The Impact, Spread and Decline of the Calculatores Tradition

This book offers an entirely new perspective on the alleged incompatibility between Aristotelian philosophy and the mathematical methods and principles that form the basis of modern science. It surveys the tradition of the Oxford Calculators from its beginnings in the fourteenth century until Leibniz and the philosophy of the seventeenth century and explores how their various techniques of quantification expanded the conceptual and methodological limits of Aristotelianism.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2022
• EAN: 9789004499829
• ISBN: 978-90-04-49982-9
• No. of pages: 492
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 31 mm
• Weight: 820 g
• Series: Medieval and Early Modern Phil
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works