Trifogli, Cecilia (Author)
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Volume: 8
Pages: 404--417
Edition Details: Part of a special issue on The Reception of Aristotle's Physical Works in the Middle Ages
Language: English
In his Physics commentary, Thomas Wylton reports and rejects an opinion about time that posits the existence of minimal times conceived of as indivisible parts of time. This opinion is in contrast with the view that time is continuous, the predominant view in the late Middle Ages. In this paper I first explain the notion of minimal time. I then focus on the relation between the existence of minimal times and the existence of minima naturalia in the extension of natural bodies. In particular, I present the two ways in which the author of the opinion in question deduces the existence of minimal times from the existence of minima naturalia in the extension of natural bodies. I also briefly present the reaction of Wylton against this opinion. I finally explain how in this opinion the position of minimal times is relevant to the problem of the existence of dine. The Appendix to the paper contains Wylton's report of the opinion about minimal times.
...MoreArticle De Leemans, Pieter (2003) Jozef Brams (27 June 1937--23 October 2003). Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (p. 291).
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