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The Sublunary Phaenomena as a Subject of Medieval Academic Discussion. Meteorology and the Prague University Disputationes de Quolibet
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SYSNO ASEP 0474357 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title The Sublunary Phaenomena as a Subject of Medieval Academic Discussion. Meteorology and the Prague University Disputationes de Quolibet Author(s) Kocánová, Barbora (FLU-F) RID, ORCID, SAI Source Title Early Science and Medicine. - : Brill - ISSN 1383-7427
Roč. 22, č. 1 (2017), s. 72-102Number of pages 31 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country NL - Netherlands Keywords history of meteorology ; Middle Ages ; Prague University ; Aristotle ; disputationes de quolibet Subject RIV AB - History OECD category History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings) Institutional support FLU-F - RVO:67985955 UT WOS 000397623000004 EID SCOPUS 85016439667 DOI 10.1163/15733823-00221P04 Annotation Prague university scholars found ten questions (six quaestiones and four probleumata) of medieval meteorology remarkable enough to include them in the agenda of annual ceremonial disputations de quolibet between 1399 and 1417. The disputations resembled rhetoric tournaments where masters of the Faculty of Arts fought with each other using their polemics about scientific and political issues of the time. The six enticing quaestiones mostly concerned topics which were not sufficiently addressed by Aristotle, although they had been discussed extensively since antiquity. Above all, they concerned aspects of optical phaenomena (meteors, comets, halo effect, rainbow). The so-called probleumata, simple topics added to the quaestiones to entertain and refresh the audience, will also be discussed, unlike quaestiones, probleumata rarely referred directly to Aristotle’s work. The present study examines to what extent the sources for quodlibet disputations represent relevant material for the study of the reception of meteorology in medieval education. Workplace Institute of Philosophy Contact Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360 Year of Publishing 2018
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