Brill John Buridan, Quaestiones super octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis (secundum ultimam lecturam): Libri I - II: 25 (Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science, 25)

John Buridan (d. ca. 1360) was one of the most talented and influential philosophers of the later Middle Ages. He spent his career as a master in the Arts Faculty at the University of Paris, producing commentaries and independent treatises on logic, metaphysics, natural philosophy, and ethics. His Questions Commentary on the eight books of Aristotle's Physics is the most important witness to Buridan's teachings in the field of natural philosophy. The commentary was widely read during the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This volume presents the first critical edition of books I & II of the final redaction of Buridan's Questions Commentary on the Physics. The critical edition of the Latin text is accompanied by a detailed guide to the contents of Buridan's questions. Review "In a superb introduction by Johannes Thijssen and a lengthy and wonderfully edifying study guide by Edith Sylla, close readers will have before them several research questions and projects that could occupy them for years. [...] For students of medieval natural philosophy, the edition will generate further questions and discussions and contribute to a more nuanced picture of fourteenth-century philosophy than that provided by some earlier and still often-cited studies distorted by anachronistic comparisons and by sectarian philosophical or theological agendas. Interested readers surely look forward to the completion of the edition." - André Goddu (Stonehill College), Speculum 92/4 (October 2017), pp. 1164-1166. "The edition reviewed here is a very important contribution to a better, more precise acquaintance, based on textual evidence, with one of the more philosophically lively periods of medieval thought. The various lectiones of the manuscripts and the list of works cited by Buridan, together with the opening "Guide to the Text," render very significant and effective support to our understanding of an ancient, truly important contribution to the history of science." - Stefano Caroti (University of Parma), Isis, Volume 108, Number 1, March 2017, pp. 179-180. About the Author Paul J.J.M. Bakker (Ph.D. 1999) is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at Radboud University. His research focuses on the commentary tradition on Aristotle's works on natural philosophy, from the late Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. Michiel Streijger (Ph.D. 2008) is a researcher at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich. He is working on an edition of book II of Robert Cowton's commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. Edith D. Sylla (Ph.D. 1971) is Professor Emerita at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina). She works on the history of mathematics, physics, and their interrelations from the late Middle Ages to the early eighteenth century. Johannes M.M.H. Thijssen (Ph.D. 1988) is Professor of History of Philosophy at Radboud University.