This special issue of Aristotelica edited by Simone Guidi and Enrico Pasini was published open access. The issue simultaneously integrates two aspects and historiographical perspectives. While investigating the development and reconceptualization of Aristotelian notions in early modern natural philosophy, it emphasizes the role of terminology and its historical shifts.
Without claiming completeness – but in the hope of fostering new research in this combined field of studies – it examines a number of relevant case studies from different moments of the Renaissance and early modern natural thought. Through these studies, it attempts to tentatively chart some of these overlaps in concepts and vocabulary, focusing particularly on the significant time period from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century.
Contents:
- Simone Guidi and Enrico Pasini, “Early Modern Adaptations and Transformations of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy: Terminology, Key Concepts, and Case Studies” (Introduction)
- Giacomo Rughetti, “Form as a Quality of Matter. The Translation of ἕξις in Michael Scot’s Version of Aristotle’s Physics and its Influence on Giordano Bruno’s Figuratio Aristotelici Physici auditus”
- Erik Åkerlund, “Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1578-1641) on Matter”
- Sylvain Roudaut, “Heat, Coldness, and Contrariety in Late Scholastic Philosophy”
- Christoph Sander, “Least Attractive? Aristotelian Presuppositions to Explain Magnetic Movements”
- Yuan Tao, “The Fluidity of a Concept: Auditory Species in the Conimbricenses, Arriaga and Schelhammer”
- Pietro Daniel Omodeo, “Parole e sentimenti della materia. Eternità e materialismo cosmologico nel Rinascimento tra Averroè e Bruno / Words and Feelings of Matter: Eternity and Cosmological Materialism in the Renaissance between Averroes and Bruno”
- Enrico Pasini, “Aristote rencontre l’infini / Aristotle Meets Infinity”