Continuità e discontinuità delle grandezze fisiche in Egidio Romano / Cecilia Trifogli.
Abstract:
This paper deals with Giles of Rome's (a late Xlllth century Aristotelian Commentator, Augustinian) position on the continuity of extension and motion. Giles maintains that extension and motion are continuous in so far as they can be considered simply as quantities, but are discontinuous when considered as physical objects or processes, since in the natural world they are joined with qualities. This paper aims at establishing that Giles' position reflects a widespread issue in Xlllth century natural philosophy according to which Aristotle's theory of continuity is a physic-mathematical rather than a strictly physical theory
Nuncius A. 5, fasc. 2 (1990), p. 53-73