Natural law and world machine. The meaning of the peripatetic `Quaestiones mechanicae' and its early commentaries for the foundation of the exact sciences

zbMATH Open1195.01095MaRDI QIDQ3558110FDOQ3558110

Authors: Heribert Maria Nobis 

Publication date: 30 April 2010

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zbMATH Keywords

exact sciencesnatural sciencesQuaestiones mechanicae

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) Historiography (01A85) History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35)

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• Plato's \textit{Timaeus} and the Latin tradition
• Quantifying Aristotle. The impact, spread and decline of the calculatores tradition
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