The middle ages and modern science

The quotations from Albert and Thomas are taken from Grant (2007: 252–253).
See Nicole Oresme and the Kinematics of Circular Motion: Tractatus de commensurabilitate vel incommensurabilitate motuum celi, edited with an Introduction, English Translation, and Commentary by Edward Grant (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1971), 321. The words “for as demonstrated elsewhere” refer to Oresme’s On Ratios of Ratios (Tractatus de proportionibus proportionum), Chapter Three, Proposition X in Nicole Oresme, De proportionibus proportionum and Ad pauca respicientes, edited with Introductions, English Translations, and Critical Notes by Edward Grant (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1966), 247–255.
See Nicole Oresme “De proportionibus proportionum”, 142–143.

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Grant, E. The middle ages and modern science. Metascience 20, 185–190 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-010-9438-8

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