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The Aristotelian Tradition and the Rise of British EmpiricismIntroduction

The Aristotelian Tradition and the Rise of British Empiricism: Introduction [In his pioneering article ‘The Development of Scientific Method in the School of Padua’, subsequently published in the book The School of Padua and the Emergence of Modern Science, John Herman Randall suggested that Paduan Aristotelianism had a decisive impact on the making of modern science, and in particular on the philosophy of Galileo Galilei, and that this influence was attributable to the advanced theories of scientific method elaborated at the University of Padua in the Renaissance. The Paduan school had as its ancestor Pietro d’Abano (1257–1316/1317), who, in his Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum, et praecipue medicorum, established Aristotle’s Analytica Posteriora as the chief point of reference for the study of natural philosophy. This school would subsequently be developed by authors such as Paul of Venice (1368–1429), Agostino Nifo (1473–1538), Bernardino Tomitano (1517–1576), and finally its most important exponent, Jacopo Zabarella (1533–1589), who improved scientific method to the point that his theories were influential on the first experimental philosophers and on early scientists. Randall began his studies from a well-defined intellectual background. Few previous scholars had dealt with Paduan Aristotelianism, and historians such as Ernst Rénan, Francesco Fiorentino, Pietro Ragnisco, and Erminio Troilo were concerned mainly with the problem of the immortality of the soul and with the presence of Averroistic traces, rather than with the methodology of science.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
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978-94-007-4950-4
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1 –15
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10.1007/978-94-007-4951-1_1
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[In his pioneering article ‘The Development of Scientific Method in the School of Padua’, subsequently published in the book The School of Padua and the Emergence of Modern Science, John Herman Randall suggested that Paduan Aristotelianism had a decisive impact on the making of modern science, and in particular on the philosophy of Galileo Galilei, and that this influence was attributable to the advanced theories of scientific method elaborated at the University of Padua in the Renaissance. The Paduan school had as its ancestor Pietro d’Abano (1257–1316/1317), who, in his Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum, et praecipue medicorum, established Aristotle’s Analytica Posteriora as the chief point of reference for the study of natural philosophy. This school would subsequently be developed by authors such as Paul of Venice (1368–1429), Agostino Nifo (1473–1538), Bernardino Tomitano (1517–1576), and finally its most important exponent, Jacopo Zabarella (1533–1589), who improved scientific method to the point that his theories were influential on the first experimental philosophers and on early scientists. Randall began his studies from a well-defined intellectual background. Few previous scholars had dealt with Paduan Aristotelianism, and historians such as Ernst Rénan, Francesco Fiorentino, Pietro Ragnisco, and Erminio Troilo were concerned mainly with the problem of the immortality of the soul and with the presence of Averroistic traces, rather than with the methodology of science.]

Published: Aug 11, 2012

Keywords: Seventeenth Century; Modern Science; Sixteenth Century; British Isle; Fourteenth Century

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