Article ID: CBB575518904

Geraldus Odonis on Atomism: With a Critical Edition of In ii Sent., d. 44, q. 4 (2022)

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The Franciscan Geraldus Odonis (d. 1349) presented his indivisibilist theory of continua in Paris at a time when similar theses were advanced in the studia across the Channel. The Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Henry of Harclay (d. 1317), caused considerable stir among his colleagues by endorsing a mathematical atomism, and his most famous follower, Walter Chatton, O. F. M., developed his brand of atomism in the early 1320s. The present article focuses on one of the five different redactions of Odonis’s famous question De continuo, preserved in his commentary on Book ii of Peter Lombard’s Sentences (d. 44, q. 4). The first part of the article examines the main differences between the various redactions of the question De continuo. The second part explores the philosophical content and the circumstances surrounding the redaction found in Book ii of Odonis’s Sentences commentary. While acknowledging that Odonis’s atomism is similar to Harclay’s, it is argued that Odonis’s theory is a significant departure from the type of atomism espoused by Harclay. The Appendix provides the first complete critical edition of the said redaction of Odonis’s question De continuo.

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Authors & Contributors
Bakker, Paul J. J. M.
Cunningham, W. Jack
Dales, Richard C.
de Boer, Sander W.
Donati, Silvia
Glasner, Ruth
Journals
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale
Journal of Medieval Latin
Journal of the History of Ideas
Medioevo: Saggi e Rassegne
Theoria (0495-4548)
Publishers
Leuven University Press
Omniscience
Oxford University Press
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Springer International
Università degli Studi di Siena
Concepts
Commentaries
Natural philosophy
Aristotelianism
Atomism
Continuity
Philosophy
People
Aristotle
Henry of Harclay
Averroes
Ailly, Pierre d'
Averroès (Ibn Rushd)
Avicenna
Time Periods
Medieval
Renaissance
13th century
15th century
16th century
17th century
Places
Paris (France)
Europe
Great Britain
Cambridge (England)
Prague (Czechia)
London (England)
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Université de Paris
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