Johann Eck’s Textbooks as a Continuation of the Oxford Calculators. A Case Study into Sixteenth-Century German Scholasticism

0582140 - FLÚ 2024 RIV IT eng J - Journal Article
Hanke, Miroslav
Johann Eck’s Textbooks as a Continuation of the Oxford Calculators. A Case Study into Sixteenth-Century German Scholasticism.
Noctua. Roč. 11, č. 1 (2024), s. 156-199. E-ISSN 2284-1180
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Keywords : Johann Eck * Oxford Calculators * Aristotle commentaries * Scholastic physics * Bradwardine’s law * middle degree theorem
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Method of publishing: Open access
https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/NoctuaXI4

Johann Eck (1486–1543) has been introduced to modern scholarship as a prominent figure of the pre-Tridentine Counter-Reformation. As part of the curricular transformations of the University of Ingolstadt, he wrote commentaries on logical and scientific works by Aristotle and Peter of Spain. Utilising a variety of sources, the two volumes dedicated to physics and natural philosophy published in 1518 and 1519 were self-contained textbooks including annotated translations of the texts and quaestio-commentaries. These developed the doctrines of the Oxford Calculators mediated through Continental sources, reproducing their conceptual and mathematical apparatus, including the famous middle degree theorem and Bradwardine’s law.
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