The Mechanization of Nature: Matter, Body, and Motion in Blasius of Parma’s Physics

Erik Åkerlund , Henrik Lagerlund , Sylvain Roudaut
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The Mechanization of Nature: Matter, Body, and Motion in Blasius of Parma’s Physics

Erik Åkerlund , Henrik Lagerlund , Sylvain Roudaut
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  • Published date: Jul 17, 2025
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 314
  • Publisher: Brill
  • ISBN: 9789004734272
  • Dimensions: 6.102362204" W x 1.023622047" L x 9.251968503" H
Henrik Lagerlund, Ph.D. (1999), Uppsala University, is Professor of the History of Philosophy at Stockholm University. He has published several books and articles on Medieval and Renaissance philosophy, including Interpreting Buridan: Critical Essays (2024) and Skepticism in Philosophy: A Comprehensive, Historical Introduction (2020).
Sylvain Roudaut, Ph.D. (2017), University of Rennes, is Senior Researcher at the CNRS (SPHERE, Paris). His research focuses on the interaction between philosophy, science, and mathematics in the Latin and Arabic traditions in the Middle Ages. He published La mesure de l’être (2021) and Hylomorphism into Pieces: Elements, Atoms, and Corpuscles in Natural Philosophy and Medicine, 1400–1600 (2024).
Erik Åkerlund, Ph.D. (2011), Uppsala University, is Lecturer in Philosophy at The Newman Institute, Uppsala (Sweden). He has a research focus on 15th to 17th century philosophy, especially natural philosophy but also extending to political philosophy. His articles include “Chrysostom Javellus and Francis Silvestri on Final Causation” (2024) and “Models of Finality: Aristotle, Buridan, and Averroes” (2023).
Robert Andrews, Ph.D. (1988), Cornell University, was Associate Professor at The Franciscan Institute of St. Bonaventure University and is now associate of the Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholm University. Published volumes include Robert Greystones on Certainty and Skepticism with Mark Henninger and Jennifer Ottman (2020) and several co-edited volumes of B. Ioannis Duns Scoti Opera philosophica (1997-2004).

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