The Physics of Duns Scotus: The Scientific Context of a Theological Vision

By Richard Cross

Duns Scotus, along with Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham, was one of the three most talented and influential of the medieval schoolmen, and a highly original and creative thinker. This book contains detailed discussion and analysis of Scotus's accounts of the nature of matter; the structure of material substance; mass; the nature of space, time, and motion; quantitative and qualitative change; and the various sorts of unity which can be exhibited by different kinds of whole.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198269749
• ISBN13: 9780198269748
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"