Oxford Physics in the Thirteenth Century (ca. 1250-1270): Motion, Infinity, Place, and Time.

The Review of Metaphysics | June 1, 2001| | Copyright

TRIFOGLI, Cecilia. Oxford Physics in the Thirteenth Century (ca. 1250-1270): Motion, Infinity, Place, and Time. Boston: Brill, 2000. vii + 289 pp. n. p.--Since Marshall Clagett's (1953) work in the 1950s the importance of the Mertonian physicists in fourteenth century Oxford has been well understood. The recovery of Aristotle as a source for contemporary philosophy of physics, initiated by William Wallace's important study The Modeling of Nature (Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1996), has made the development of Aristotelian physics no longer a ...

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