TY  - BOOK
AU  - Des Chene,Dennis
TI  - Physiologia: Natural Philosophy in Late Aristotelian and Cartesian Thought 
SN  - 9781501723711
U1  - 113 20
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Philosophy of nature
KW  - Philosophy, Medieval
KW  - Physics
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History Of Science
KW  - History
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations and Orthographical Conventions --; Introduction --; PART 1: Vicaria Dei --; 1. Natural Change --; 2. Motus, Potentia, Actus --; 3. Form, Privation, and Substance --; 4. Matter, Quantity, and Figure --; 5. The Structure of Physical Substance --; 6. Finality and Final Causes --; 7. Nature and Counternature --; PART II: Bodies in Motion --; 8. Motion and Its Causes --; 9. Parts of Matter --; 10. World without Ends --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Sixteenth-century Aristotelianism was the culmination of four centuries of commentary and criticism. Physiologia is one of the first books to provide an accessible and comprehensive guide to that tradition in natural philosophy. In an incisive and readable treatment, Dennis Des Chene illuminates the continuities and disruptions between medieval and modern philosophy and promotes a new understanding of the philosophical setting in which modern notions of science emerged
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723711
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501723711
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501723711/original
ER  -