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Ventura, Iolanda, "Summarizing the theory of elements in thirteenth century encyclopedias", Technai, 16 [=The harmony of the elements: philosophical and technical perspectives from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, I] (2025), 189-217.
- Resum
- The aim of my paper is to offer a preliminary study on the accounts on elements and the structure of matter in the most representative Medieval Latin encyclopedias written during the thirteenth century. More specifically, I will focus on the sections on matter and elements included by Bartholomew the Englishman in his De proprietatibus rerum, by Arnoldus Saxo in his De floribus rerum naturalium, and by Vincent of Beauvais in the Speculum naturale. Moving from these texts, I will analyze the role played by elements in the description of the natural world featured by encyclopedic texts, the influence of philosophical (especially Chartrian) sources and their coexistence with the Aristotle's physical thought as it emerged from the contemporary Latin translations. I will also discuss the topics and the questions encyclopedic compilers chose to deal with and venture some explanations for their choices of selecting or excluding issues related to elements.
- Matèries
- Enciclopedisme
Filosofia - Filosofia natural
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