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Timeline

All the literature in order of (original) publication, with events for context.

4th century BCE

  1. 4th c. BCE

    Aristotle, Physics

    Week 1, Friday 18 September

    Aristotle Source text

13th century

  1. 1210

    Paris forbids lecturing on Aristotle’s natural philosophy

    Aristotle Medieval universities
  2. 13th c.

    Thomas Aquinas, Selections: on Aristotle’s Physics, Boethius’ De trinitate, and the Summa Theologiae

    Week 2, Wednesday 23 September

    Aristotle Medieval universities Source text
  3. 1277

    Condemnation of 1277 in Paris

    Bishop Tempier condemns 219 propositions, many Aristotelian.

    Aristotle Medieval universities

17th century

  1. 1632

    Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

    Week 2, Friday 25 September

    Aristotle Galileo Source text

20th century

  1. 1950

    E.J. Dijksterhuis, The Mechanization of the World Picture

    Week 1, Friday 18 September

    Aristotle esse per se esse per aliud movetur per se movetur per aliud substance as matter and form potential being and actual being doctrine of the elements natural and enforced motions motor conjunctus virtus movens
  2. 1977

    Thomas Kuhn, The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change

    Week 1, Friday 18 September

    Aristotle Hermeneutics
  3. 1996

    Edward Grant, The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional, and Intellectual Contexts

    Week 2, Wednesday 23 September

    Aristotle Medieval universities

21st century

  1. 2010

    John Heilbron, Galileo

    Week 2, Friday 25 September

    Aristotle Galileo
  2. 2013

    Michael H. Shank, Schools and Universities in Medieval Latin Science

    Week 2, Wednesday 23 September

    Aristotle Medieval universities