Table of Contents

List of Plates
List of Contributors
Editor’s Introduction, Edith D. Sylla and Michael R. McVaugh
Publications of John E. Murdoch

I. Eudoxan Astronomy and Aristotelian Holism in the Physics, Jean de Groot
II. The Latin Sources of Quadrans vetus, and What They Imply for Its Authorship and Date, Wilbur R.
Knorr
III. Roger Bacon’s De laudibus mathematicae: A Prelimary Study, George Molland
IV. What Really Happened on 7 March 1277? Bishop Tempier’s Condemnation and Its Instituional Context,
J.M.M.H. Thijssen
V. Armengaud Blaise as a Translator of Galen, Michael R. McVaugh
VI. The Meaning of Natural Diversity: Marco Polo on the “Division: of the World, Katherine Park
VII. Thomas Bradwardine’s De continuo and the structure of Fourtheenth Century Learning, Edith D.
Sylla
VIII. Nicole Oresme, Aristotle’s On the Heavens, and the Court of Charles V, Edward Grant
IX. Charles V. Nicole Oresme, and Christine de Pizan: Unities and Uses of Knowledge in Fourtheenth-Century
France, Joan Cadden
X. Academic Consulting in fiftheenth-Century Vienna: The Case of Astrology, Michael H. Shank
XI. Domingo de Soto’s “Laws” of Motion: Text and Context, William A. Wallace
XII. Art, Nature, and Experiment among Some Aristotelian Alchemists, Wiliam R. Newman

Index Codicum
General Index

About the Author

Edith Sylla is Professor of History at North Carolina State University. She is currently working on Jacob Bernoulli's Ars Coniectandi and on alternative perspectives on the Scientific Revolution, particularly that of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Michael R. McVaugh, Ph.D. (1965) in History (Princeton University) is Wiliam Smith Wells Professor of History at the University of North Carolina. He has published extensively on late medieval medicine, including Medicine Before the Plague (Cambridge, 1993).