I am happy to acknowledge awards from the University Awards Committee of the State University of New York (1976), the Office of the Provost of SUNY- Binghamton (1978), and the Humanities and Social Sciences Committee of the University of Toronto (1980, 1981, and 1982). [...] The De causis will sustain analyses that contribute to appreciating changes in Oresme's views during his long career; to charting the development of medieval naturalism and its possible role in the "disenchantment" of the world; to documenting the history of nominalism, particularly the issue of God's absolute and ordained powers; to understanding the relations between the royal patron and the cli [...] Although the form of such books varied considerably over the centuries, ranging from Aristotle's Problems and Seneca's Natural Questions, through the "Salernitan" medical questions and the university- based scholastic disputations of the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries, to the reports of the early scientific societies of the seventeenth century, a great number of the topics recur again [...] In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Nicole Oresme and Pico della Mirandola stand out as notable opponents of some of the major claims of astrology; neither, of course, denied all the notions found in traditional astrology.22 In the sixteenth century, the Protestant Reformation at first challenged the efficacy of rituals and sorcery in its attempts to devalue "popish" practices and "priestly [...] However complete the disenchantment of the world seen and described by scientists - a situation which Diderot, Goethe, and Blake lamented and sought to reverse - the beliefs and practices still continued in other segments of the population.25 Certainly the collapse of the Aristotelian cosmos consequent to the acceptance of heliocentric astronomy played a major role in the ultimate fall of astrolog
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- STUDY 14
- 1 An Overview 16
- 2 Oresme's Other Writings on Astrology, Magic, and Marvels 30
- 3 The Textual Tradition of De causis mirabilium 39
- A. The Quodlibeta and Its Parts 39
- B. The Questio contra divinatores 41
- C. Quodlibetal Literature in General 43
- D. The Tabula problematum or Series of Single Questions 45
- E. The Received Version of the Text 49
- F. The Date of Composition 56
- 4 The Structure of De causis and its Major Theme: Rationes plurium mirabilium 62
- A. The Organization of This Treatise 62
- B. Explaining Marvels Naturalistically 63
- C. Precedents for Naturalizing Marvels 67
- D. Mirabilia as Events Without Known Causes 74
- E. Mirabilia Explained – Before and After Oresme 77
- F. Overlooked Causes and Perceptual Errors 83
- 5 The Character of Oresme's Arguments, Explanations, and Personal Observations 87
- 6 Perspectiva, Visual Theory, and Sensation 99
- 7 Issues Touching Theology and Faith 109
- A. Philosophy versus Theology 62
- B. God's Absolute and Ordained Powers 114
- C. Causality 116
- D. Nominalism 117
- E. Sentences Commentaries 122
- 8 The Use of Oresme's De causis by Later Authors 127
- A. Jean Gerson 127
- B. Friar Claude's De his quae mundo mirabiliter eveniunt 133
- 9 Editorial Procedures 136
- A. Description of the Manuscripts 136
- B. The Text 142
- C. Abbreviations Used in the Apparatus 144
- D. The Translation and the Commentary 144
- TEXT AND TRANSLATION 148
- Prologue 150
- Chapter One: On the Causes of Marvels Involving Vision 154
- Chapter Two: On Apparent Marvels in the Hearing of Sound 180
- Chapter Three: On Marvels Involving Touch and Taste and their Causes 206
- Chapter Four: On Marvels Involving the Operations of the Soul and Body 286
- Recapitulation 373
- Appendix A: Tabula problematum 378
- Appendix B: Correlation of Manuscript Folios with this Edition 407
- Index of Oresme's Cited Authorities 412
- Index verborum et nominum 414
- Bibliographical Index 442
- Index of Manuscripts Cited 473
- General Index 474
- A 474
- B 475
- C 476
- D 477
- E 478
- F 479
- G 479
- H 480
- I 480
- J 481
- K 481
- L 481
- M 482
- N 483
- O 485
- P 485
- Q 487
- R 487
- S 487
- T 489
- U 490
- V 490
- W 490
- Y 491
- Z 491
