Nicole Oresme and the medieval geometry of qualities and motions;
a treatise on the uniformity and difformity of intensities known as Tractatus de configurationibus qualitatum et motuum.
Edited with an introd., English translation, and commentary by Marshall Clagett.

Description

Main Author

Oresme, Nicole, approximately 1320-1382.

Related Names

Clagett, Marshall, 1916-2005.

Language(s)

English ; Latin

Published

Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1968.

Subjects

Mechanics > Mechanics / Early works to 1800.
Geometry > Geometry / Early works to 1800.

Note

The text in Latin and English on opposite pages. The first printing of the complete text based on 14 extant MSS. in European libraries.

Physical Description

xiii, 713 p. illus., 18 facsims. 25 cm.

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