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| Preface | |
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| Ancient Egypt to Plato | |
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| The Preliterate Beginnings | |
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| Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia | |
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| Early Greek Natural Philosophy and Medicine | |
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| Plato | |
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| Aristotle (384-322 BC) | |
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| Life | |
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| Works: Aristotle's Writings and Their Preservation | |
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| Aristotle's Achievements | |
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| Aristotle's Cosmos and Natural Philosophy | |
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| The Scope of Aristotle's Natural Philosophy | |
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| Late Antiquity | |
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| Neoplatonism and Its Approach to Aristotle | |
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| Islam and the Eastward Shift of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy | |
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| The Translations | |
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| The Fate of Natural Philosophy in Islam | |
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| Natural Philosophy before the Latin Translations | |
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| Roman Authors | |
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| The Latin Encyclopedists: European Learning to the Ninth Century | |
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| The Twelfth Century and Its Immediate Antecedents | |
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| Hostile Reception of the New Theology | |
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| Natural Philosophy in the Twelfth Century | |
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| Translations in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries | |
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| The World of the Translators | |
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| Translations from Arabic and Greek in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries | |
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| How Trustworthy Are Aristotle's Translated Texts? | |
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| Pseudo-Aristotle: Works Falsely Attributed to Aristotle | |
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| Natural Philosophy after the Translations: Its Role and Place in the Late Middle Ages | |
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| The Medieval University | |
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| The Impact of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy in the Early Thirteenth Century to 1240 | |
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| University Lectures on Natural Philosophy | |
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| The Classification of the Sciences and the Subject of Natural Philosophy | |
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| Anonymous Fourteenth-Century Treatise on Natural Philosophy | |
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| The Occult Sciences and Natural Philosophy | |
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| The Form and Content of Late Medieval Natural Philosophy | |
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| John Buridan: On the Possibility of Other Worlds | |
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| The Substantive Nature of Natural Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages | |
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| Thought Experiments and the Role of the Imagination | |
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| Beyond Aristotle | |
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| Was Aristotelian Natural Philosophy Science? | |
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| The Relations between Natural Philosophy and Theology | |
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| The Disciplinary Relations between Natural Philosophy and Theology | |
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| Did God and Theology Play an Integral Role in Medieval Natural Philosophy? | |
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| How a Few Significant Natural Philosophers Viewed the Relations between Natural Philosophy and Theology | |
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| The Relationship as Reflected in the Questions and Commentaries on the Works of Aristotle | |
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| Did Natural Philosophy Influence Medieval Theology? | |
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| The Transformation of Medieval Natural Philosophy from the Early Modern Period to the End of the Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Fate of Medieval Natural Philosophy during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries | |
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| The New Natural Philosophy of the Seventeenth Century | |
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| The Relations between Natural Philosophy and Science in the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries | |
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| The Revolution in Natural Philosophy from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Continuity of History and the Problem of Names and Terminology | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |