“Physics” here entails how the Medievals and Pre-Moderns used the term.
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Order of Contents
Books 3
Latin 1
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1600’s
Burgersdijck, Franco
The Idea of Natural Philosophy, or a Method of Definitions & Controversies in Physics tr. by AI by Onku (1622; 1645; Amsterdam, 1657) 55 pp.
Burgersdijck (1590-1635) was a reformed Dutch professor of philosophy at Saumur and Leiden, also working in logica and ethics. He was a mentee at one time of Gisbertus Voetius. This was his first book.
Wikipedia has characterized his work as being “the efficient adaptation of the Corpus Aristotelicum to the standards of the humanistic method” and says he followed the methods of Peter Ramus.
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Dedicatory Epistle 8
Preface to Students 9
1. Nature of Philosophy & Physics 10
2. Principles of Natural Body 12
3. Nature 14
4. Quantity & Quality of Natural Body 15
5. Place & Vacuum 17
6. Motion 18
7. Time 20
8. World 22
9. Heaven 23
10. Various Orbs of the Heaven & the Stars 25
11. Generation & Corruption 27
12. Elements in General 29
13. Individual Elements 31
14. Mixture & Temperaments 33
15. Putrefaction 35
16. Meteors 37
17. Soul, Life & Death 39
18. Vegetative Soul & its Affections 41
19. Sentient Soul & its Affections 43
20. Sight 45
21. Hearing, Smell, Taste, Touch 47
22. Internal Sense & its Affections 49
23. Sensitive Appetite & Locomotive Power 51
24. Essence & Origin of the Intellective Soul 52
25. Intellect 54
26. Will 56-57
A Physical Compendium, completed in 32 Disputations, concisely setting forth the entire Natural Philosophy, Disputations 1-11 2nd ed. tr. by AI by Onku (1637; Leiden, 1642) 50 pp. Latin Full ToC
Preface 1
1. Constitution of Physics 1
2. First Matter of Natural Things 6
3. Form & Privation 11
4. Nature, Efficient Cause & End of Natural Things 15
5. Magnitude of Natural Body 19
6. Place & Vacuum 23
7. Motion in General 28
8. Species of Motion 33
9. Time 37
10. Nature & Affections of Heaven 41
11. Ordinary & Extraordinary Stars 45
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Jacchaeus, Gilbert – Institutions of Physics (1644) tr. AI by Roman Prestarri Latin
1. ‘Of Philosophy in General’
2. ‘On the Division of Philosophy’
3. ‘On the Division of Contemplative Philosophy’
4. ‘On the Constitution of Physics’
5. ‘On Principles of Natural Things in General’
6. ‘On Prime Matter’
7. ‘On Form’
8. ‘On Privation’
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Jacchaeus (c.1578-1628) was a reformed professor of philosophy at Herborn and Leiden. This work has been called “a short and heavily Suarezian compendium of metaphysics.” Beyond Dordt, p. 290
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1600’s
Heereboord, Adrian – Philosophical Outlines [Meletemata], in which Most Things in Metaphysics are Ventilated, the Whole of Ethics… is Explained, Universal Physics is Expounded through Theorems & Commentaries, & a Sum of Logical Things is Given through Disputations… 2nd ed. (Leiden, 1659) ToC
A Collection of Physics
1. On the Principles of Natural Bodies 1
2. On Nature, the Efficient Cause, End, Quantity, Quality & Place
3. On Motion & Time
4. On the World & Heaven
5. On the Elements 19
6. On Generation & Corruption 23
7. On Meteors 27
8. On Mixture & Temperament 30
9. On the Soul 35
10. On the Vegetative Soul 39
11. On the Sentient Soul
12. On Sight
13. On Hearing, Smelling, Taste, Touch, etc. & Internal Sense in General 53
14. On Internal Sense in Specific, on the Sensitive & Locomotive Appetite 57
15. On the Rational Soul 62
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