MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02413nam a22002778a 4500
001 2009001721
003 DLC
005 20090126103154.0
008 090126s2009 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009001721
020 $a9780199567737 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aQC7$b.G65 2009
082 00 $a530.01$222
100 1 $aGlasner, Ruth.
245 10 $aAverroes' physics :$ba turning point in medieval natural philosophy /$cRuth Glasner.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2009.
263 $a0906
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : science through exegesis -- The complexity of Averroes' writing -- Description of the corpus -- The short commentary -- The middle commentary -- The long commentary -- The questions in physics -- The order of writing -- The changing cultural contexts -- Versions and revisions -- The short commentary -- The middle commentary -- The long commentary -- The late stratum of the long commentary -- The formal introduction -- The uses of syllogism -- The turning to alexander -- Averroes' new physics -- The turning point of Physics VIII : the breakdown of determinism -- The challenge of indeterminism -- Conflicting messages in Aristotle -- The story of the middle commentary -- The riddle of the long commentary -- The turning point of Physics VI : the breakdown of motion -- Introduction: The various concepts of motion in Aristotle's physics -- Aristotle's divisibility argument : a crack in the interval model of motion (Physics VI.4) -- Physics V reinterpreted : from homogeneity to heterogeneity -- Physics VI reinterpreted : from a continuous interval to a contiguous chain -- Physics III reintepreted : from dimensional entity toboundary entity -- When did the turning point occur? -- The turning point of Physics III : the breakdown of physical body -- Can physical body be a true homoeomer? -- Aristotle's moving-agent argument (physics VII.1) -- Alexander vs. Galen on the meaning of essentiality -- Averroes' notion of first-moved part -- Averroes' Aristotelian atomism -- The divorce between mathematics and physics -- When did the turning point occur?
650 0 $aPhysics$xPhilosophy$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aPhilosophy, Medieval.
650 0 $aScience, Medieval.
600 00 $aAverroës,$d1126-1198.
600 00 $aAristotle.$tPhysics.