Aristotle: From Antiquity to the Modern Era (Scalvini)

Author: Barbara Scalvini, Martin Gross, Benjamin Morison

ISBN: 9781911282754

Binding: hardcover

Section: History

Aristotle towers over Western philosophy and science as no other single person does. As they have come down to us, Aristotle’s works comprise a veritable encyclopedia of philosophy and logic, the physical and natural sciences, ethics and politics. This volume illustrates the ways in which the Aristotelian corpus has been transmitted over time. In particular, it focuses on one crucial, extended moment: the moment when, thanks to the invention of printing, Aristotle’s works became widely available in Latin, Greek, and even in vernacular languages in the late 15th and 16th centuries.