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On Maxima and Minima - Chapter 5 of Rules for Solving Sophismata, with an anonymous fourteenth-century discussion (Hardcover, 1984 ed.)
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On Maxima and Minima - Chapter 5 of Rules for Solving Sophismata, with an anonymous fourteenth-century discussion (Hardcover, 1984 ed.)
Series: Synthese Historical Library, 26
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This book began with my edition of the anonymous treatise. A
translation and notes seemed essential if the material of the
treatise was to be understood. It then seemed that Chapter 5 of
Heytesbury's Rules for Solving Sophismata, on which the treatise
was based, should also be included. My translation of the
Heytesbury treatise is based on a fifteenth-century edition,
supplemented by readings from a few of the better manuscripts. (A
critical edition from all the manuscripts, of which Chapter 5 will
be mine, is now in progress under the supervision of Paul Spade,
but only a few insignificant changes in the translation should be
necessitated by the completed edition. ) An examination of related
materials seemed reasonable, and these included Heytesbury's
commentator Gaetano, as well as a chapter from a treatise by
Johannes Venator (in an edition in progress provided by Francesco
del Punta). It seemed unnecessary to publish Gaetano's and
Venator's related works in this volume, but all their departures
from Heytesbury and the anonymous treatise are noted here. I have
not examined other works in the tradition in any detail. I owe a
great deal to my teacher, Norman Kretzmann, not only as regards the
edition and translations, but also as regards the notes, study and
introduction. The referees of the typescript (to me unknown) made
unusually thorough criticisms and suggestions to which I have paid
close attention. The book is far better for my having done so.
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