Physiologia

Physiologia makes accessible, for the first time in English, major themes of sixteenth-century Aristotelianism, the culmination of four hundred years of commentary and criticism. In his incisive and readable treatment, Dennis Des Chene supplies the Aristotelian background necessary for understanding the rise of modern science. Physiologia promotes a new understanding of the philosophical setting in which modern notions of scientific law emerged. Continuities and disruptions between medieval and modern philosophy are set forth in an intellectual context never before available.

First sentence: The physicist who in an idle moment opens Aristotle's Physics is likely to be disconcerted by the content of that work.

Year

1996

Language

English

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Editions

2

Pages

456

ISBN

9780801486876

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