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001 2009001721
003 DLC
005 20091229153520.0
008 090126s2009 enk b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780199567737 (alk. paper)
020 $a0199567735 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn294885654
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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.
300 $aix, 229 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [176]-194) and indexes.
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 to boundary entity -- When did the turning point occur? -- The turning point of Physics VII : 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.