Daily Medieval

After the previous post on impetus, I wanted to introduce you to Albert of Saxony, who took Avicenna's idea a step further. Albert ...

1582 woodcut demonstrating impetus with artillery Impetus is the force or energy with which a body started to move. The term itself ent...

Medieval philosophers categorized several logic puzzles as insolubilia , unsolvable things. Probably the most common of these was (and stil...

A university meeting Today is the birthday of the founder of the Sorbonne. The Collège of Sorbonne is arguably the best-known college in...

The "Beast of Provence" (also known as the "Giant of Provence" or "Bald Mountain") is actually Mont Ventoux [M...

Nicholas Oresme While re-examining Aristotle, Jean Buridan used observation and brainpower to anticipate some of the ideas we attribute...

Realism [ link ] At the foundation of philosophy is a question: what defines reality? There are several questions that are connected to ...

Expositio & questiones manuscript Jean Buridan (c.1300-c.1361) was a University of Paris scholar who was not afraid to tackle some ...

Buridan's Ass is the name given to a paradox: that a hungry and thirsty ass placed exactly in the middle between water and hay will be...