Incunable; Jean Buridan - Quaestiones et dubia in
Quaestiones and dubia in Aristotelis Politica. Paris, WolfgangHopyl for Durand Gerlier, [c. ].Folio (29 cm). Signatures: a4, A8, a-r6, s5, without the last blank leaf. 19th-century vellum binding. 120 leaves.B.1 with slight loss of text. One leave shortened in the margins, without loss of text.19th-century vellum binding. One illuminated initial and seven others with pen work including one depicting a farmer. Rubricated throughout. First and only incunabula edition of this commentary on Aristotle. Jean Buridan (Latin: Johannes Buridanus; c. ) was a French priest who sowed the seeds of the Copernican revolution in Europe. He developed the concept of impetus, the first step toward the modern concept of inertia, and an important development in the history of medieval science. He was the most influential Parisian philosopher of the fourteenth century. He spent his entire career as a teaching master in the arts faculty at the University of Paris, lecturing on logic and the works of Aristotle, and producing many commentaries and independent treatises on logic, metaphysics, natural philosophy, and ethics. GW . - C and . - ISTC ib. 27 copies in institutions (of which two are imperfect), only one in the US (Harvard) Read More