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The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Physics and Cosmology (Hardcover, Digital original)
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The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Physics and Cosmology (Hardcover, Digital original)
Series: Scientia Graeco-Arabica
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Avicenna (Ibn Sina) greatly influenced later medieval thinking
about the earth and the cosmos, not only in his own civilization,
but also in Hebrew and Latin cultures. The studies presented in
this volume discuss the reception of prominent theories by Avicenna
from the early 11th century onwards by thinkers like Averroes,
Fahraddin ar-Razi, Samuel ibn Tibbon or Albertus Magnus. Among the
topics which receive particular attention are the definition and
existence of motion and time. Other important topics are covered
too, such as Avicenna's theories of vacuum, causality, elements,
substantial change, minerals, floods and mountains. It emerges,
among other things, that Avicenna inherited to the discussion an
acute sense for the epistemological status of natural science and
for the mental and concrete existence of its objects. The volume
also addresses the philological and historical circumstances of the
textual tradition and sheds light on the translators Dominicus
Gundisalvi, Avendauth and Alfred of Sareshel in particular. The
articles of this volume are presented by scholars who convened in
2013 to discuss their research on the influence of Avicenna's
physics and cosmology in the Villa Vigoni, Italy.
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