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Speculum Divinorum Et Quorundam Naturalium: On Platonic Philosophy

Speculum Divinorum Et Quorundam Naturalium: On Platonic Philosophy

Bate, Henricus
Steel, Carlos
Van De Vyver, E.

Hardcover

Series: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy-Series 1

Philosophy

ISBN10: 9061865840
ISBN13: 9789061865841
Publisher: Leuven Univ Pr
Published: Feb 15 1994
Pages: 564
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.52 Depth: 9.33
Language: English

This volume presents a critical edition of the final parts of Bate's Speculum. In these parts, which constitute the culmination of his Platonic-Aristotelian encyclopedia, Bate outlines a 'holistic' world-picture. Parts XX to XXII are devoted to the main topics of scholastic cosmology (the eternity of the world, the union of the heavenly bodies and their separate movers, the number and harmony of the spheres). Some original passages are of special interest for the history of medieval science: particularly Bate's theory of magnetism, his comments on observational errors, and his examination of diverse astronomical models. In Part XXIII, Bate concentrates on the metaphysical subject that stimulates his inquisitive mind to the extreme, that is, on the divine forms which move the spheres, and ultimately on 'the God of all gods'. In appendix a story about the apparition of a spirit has been added.

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