No label defined (Q4953885)

Oresme's commentary to Aristotle's Physics was thought to be lost. In 1962 it became known that a codex of Quaestiones about the Physics in Sevilla is attributed to Oresme by a note in the text (which might be by another hand than the scribe's). The author argues that the text probably is based on notes which a student took of Oresme's lectures and that it represents the ideas of the young Oresme. The book contains an edition (rewritten into normative Latin) of those questions in which Oresme deviates clearly from Aristotle or the standard interpretation of Aristotle (questions about motion, the infinite, space, extension, time) and an overview over the remaining questions (all questions to books 3 and 4, half of the questions to book 5). A first part gives a detailed discussion of Oresme's positions on the main topics of the Physics (except for book 8 for which no questions are in the Seville ms.), the second part gives the edition, an appendix gives a detailed linguistic and material discussion of difficult passages in the text. Since Oresme is one of the most original thinkers of the 14th century, this book is obligatory reading for all students of scholastic science.