Subseries:
Articles, 1960-1997
The arrangement of this subseries closely follows the list of articles in Dr.
Grant's Curriculum Vitae.
Box 16
"Nicole Oresme and his
De Proportionibus
Proportionum.
"
Isis51, no. 165 (1960) : 293-314.
"Nicole Oresme and the Commensurability or Incommensurability of
Celestial Motions."
Archive for History of Exact Sciences 1
(1961) :
420-458.
"Late Medieval Thought, Copernicus, and the Scientific
Revolution."
Journal of the History of Ideas 23 (1962) :
197-220.
"Hypotheses in Late Medieval and Early Modern Science."
Daedalus Summer (1962) : 599-616.
"Jean Buridan: A 14th Century Cartesian."
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des
Sciences
16, no. 64 (1963) : 251-255.
"Aristotle's Shiphaulers' and Medieval Criticisms of His Law of
Motion."
Dixième Congrès International d'Histoire des
Sciences
1 (1964) : 587-590.
This article is located in Oversize, Box 24.
"Aristotle's Restriction on His Law of Motion: Its Fate in the Middle
Ages." In
L'Aventure de la Science.
Mèlanges Alexandre Koyré
(Histoire de la Pensée, vol. 12). Paris:
Hermann, 1964 : 173-197.
"Motion in the Void and the Principle of Inertia in the Middle
Ages."
Isis 55, no. 181 (1964) : 265-292.
"Bradwardine and Galileo: Equality of Velocities in the Void."
Archive for History of Exact Sciences 2, no. 4
(1965) :
344-364.
"Part I of Nicole Oresme's
Algorismus
Proportionum
."
Isis 56, part 3, no. 185 (1965) :
327-341.
"Aristotle, Philoponus, Avempace, and Galileo's Pisan Dynamics."
Centaurus 11, no. 2 (1965) : 79-95.
"Oresme, Nicholas."
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy New York/London,
1967 ,
vol. 5, 547, c. 1-549, c. 1.
"Science in the Middle Ages."
The New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1967 , vol. 12,
1200, c. 1-1209, c. 1.
"On the Origin of the Medieval Version of Equality of Fall for
Unequal Bodies in the Void: A Critique of Duhem's Explanation."
Actes du XI Congrès International d'Histoire des
Sciences
Warsaw/Cracow, 1967 , vol. 3, 19-23.
"Medieval and 17th Century Conceptions of an Infinite Void Space
Beyond the Cosmos. "
Isis 60, part 1, no. 201 (1969) :
39-60.
"Blasius of Parma."
Dictionary of Scientific Biography New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970 , vol. 2, 192, c.2-195,
c.2.
"The Arguments of Nicholas of Autrecourt for the Existence of
Interparticulate Vacua."
Actes du XII Congrès International d'Histoire des
Sciences
Paris: Albert Blanchard, 1971 ,tome IIIA, 65-68.
Commentary on Marshall Clagett, "Archimedes in the Late
Middle Ages." In Duane H.D. Roller (ed.),
Perspectives in the History of Science and Technology. Norman,
Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971 , 260-263.
"Henricus Aristippus, William of Moerbeke and Two Alleged Mediaeval
Translations of Hero's Pneumatica."
Speculum 46, no. 4 (1971) :
656-669.
Materials relating to translation of Philo of Byzantium 1971-1972
Essay Review of Marshall Clagett,
Nicole Oresme and the Medieval Geometry of
Qualities and Motions. A Treatise on the Uniformity and Difformity of
Intensities known as "Tractatus de configurationibus qualitatum et
motuum."
Reviewed in
Studies in History and Philosophy
of Science
3 (1972) : 167-182.
"Jordanus de Nemore"
1973
"Medieval Explanations and Interpretations of the Dictum that 'Nature
Abhors a Vacuum'."
Traditio 29 (1973) : 327-355.
"In Memoriam: Anneliese Maier (1905-1971)."
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des
Sciences
24, no. 94 (June, 1974) : 143-144.
"Peter Peregrinus."
Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974 , vol. 10, 532-540.
"Pomponius Mela."
Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975 , vol. 11, 74-76.
"Place and Space in Medieval Physical Thought." In
Motion and Time, Space and Matter: Interrelations in the
History of Philosophy and Science.
Edited by Peter K. Machamer and
Robert G. Turnbull. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1976 ,
137-167.
"The Concept of Ubi in Medieval and Renaissance Discussions of
Place." In
Science, Medicine, and the
University: 1200-1550. Essays in Honor of Pearl Kibre
Manuscripta 20 (July, 1976) , Part I,
71-80.
"Aristotelianism and the Longevity of the Medieval World View." In
History of Science, xvi (1978): 93-106.
"Scientific Thought in Fourteenth-Century Paris: Jean Buridan and
Nicole Oresme." In
Machaut's World: Science
and Art in the Fourteenth Century.
Edited by Madeleine Pelner
Cosman and Bruce Chandler.
Annals of the New York
Academy of Science
v. 314. New York: The New York Academy of
Sciences, 1978 , 105-124.
"The Principle of Impenetrability of Bodies in the History of
Concepts of Space from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth
Century."
Isis 69, no. 249 (1978) : 551-571.
Dictionary of the Middles Ages articles 1978-1979
"The Condemnation of 1277, God's Absolute Power, and Physical Thought
in the Late Middle Ages."
Viator 10, (1979) : 211-244.
Articles in Press 1980-1983
"History and Philosophy of Science"
1981
"The Medieval Doctrine of Place: Some Fundamental Problems and
Solutions. In
Studi sul XIV secolo in
memoria di Anneliese Maier.
Edited by A. Maierù and A. Paravicini
Bagliani (Storie e Letteratura, 151). Rome: Edizioni di Storia e
Letteratura, 1981 , 57-79.
"Celestial Matter: A Medieval and Galilean Cosmological
Problem."
The Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
13, no. 2 (fall,
1983) : 157-186.
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"Were there Significant Differences Between Medieval and Early Modern
Scholastic Natural Philosophy? The Case for Cosmology."
Nous 18, no. 1 (March, 1984) : 5-14.
"Science and the Medieval University." In James M. Kittelson
and Pamela J. Transue, eds.
Rebirth, Reform and
Resilience: Universities in Transition 1300-1700.
Columbus: Ohio
State University Press, 1984 , 68-102.
"Celestial Perfection from the Middle Ages to the Late Seventeenth
Century." In Margaret J. Osler and Paul Lawrence Farber, eds.,
Religion, Science and Worldview. Essays in Honor of
Richard S. Westfall.
Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press,
1985 ,
137-162.
"Issues in Natural Philosophy at Paris in the Late Thirteenth
Century."
Medievalia et Humanistica, New Series, Number
13 (Paul Maurice Clogan, ed.), 1985 , 75-94.
"A New Look at Medieval Cosmology, 1200-1687."
Proceedings of the American Philosophical
Society
129, no. 4 (Dec., 1985) : 417-432.
"Dynamik." Article in
Lexikon des
Mittelalters
3, cols. 1493-1496.
"Science and Theology in the Middle Ages." In David C.
Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers, eds.,
God and Nature,
Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and
Science.
Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press,
1986 ,
49-75.
"Eloge: Edward Rosen"
1986
"Anomalies in Medieval Science"
1987
"Medieval and Renaissance Scholastic Conceptions of the Influence of
the Celestial Region on the Terrestrial."
The Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
17, no. 1 (Spring,
1987) : 1-23.
"Eccentrics and Epicycles in Medieval Cosmology." In Edward
Grant and John E. Murdoch, eds.,
Mathematics and its
Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Essays
in Honor of Marshall Clagett.
Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge
University Press, 1987 , 189-214.
"Celestial Orbs in the Latin Middle Ages."
Isis 78, no. 292 (June, 1987) :
153-173.
"Ways to Interpret the Terms 'Aristotelian' and 'Aristotelianism' in
Medieval and Renaissance Natural Philosophy."
History of Science 25, (1987) : 335-358.
Lynn White Memoir 1987-1988
(2 folders)
"Medieval Departures from Aristotelian Natural Philosophy."
In
Studies in Medieval Natural Philosophy, ed.
Stefano Caroti. Biblioteca di Nuncius, Studi e Testi. Firenze: Leo S.
Olschki, 1989 , 237-256.
"The Parisian School of Science in the Fourteenth Century."
with John E. Murdoch. In Guttorm Flasted, ed.
Contemporary Philosophy, A New Survey,
vol. 6:
Philosophy of Science in the Middle Ages.
Co-editor Raymond Klibansky. Dodrect/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic
Publishers, 1990 , 481-493.
"Celestial Incorruptibility in Medieval Cosmology 1200-1687."
In Sabetai Unguru, ed.,
Physics, Cosmology and
Astronomy, 1300-1700.
The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1991 ,
101-127.
"The Unusual Structure and Organization of Albert of Saxony's
Questions on Decoelo." In Joël Biard, ed.
Itinéraires d'Albert de Saxe Paris-Vienne au XIV Siècle. Paris:
Libraires Philosophique J. Vrin, 1991 , 205-217.
"Science in the Late Fifteenth Century." Article in Silvio A.
Bedini, ed.,
The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia,
2 vols. New York: Simon Schuster, 1992 , vol. 2, 601-604.
Obituary for Vic Thoren 1991-1992
"Jean Buridan and Nicole Oresme on Natural Knowledge."
Vivarium 3, no. 1 (1993) : 84-105.
"A Comparison of Oresme's French and Latin Commentaries"For
Murdoch Festschrift 1992-1996
Revised Bibliographic Essay for French Physical Science in Middle
Ages 1992
"Medieval Cosmology." In Norris S. Hetherington, ed.,
Cosmology: Historical, Literary, Philosophical,
Religious, and Scientific Perspectives.
New York: Garland
Publishing, Inc., 1993 , 181-199.
"La Nature a horreur du vide." A contribution to "Les Grandes
Expérience de la Physique Blaise Pascal: Comment a-t-il démontré l'existence
de la pression atmosphérique?" In
Les Cahiers de
Science & Vie,
hors série, No. 27 (Juin 1995) , 26-33.
"Why you should believe that Modern Science began in the Middle Ages"
1995
"Astronomy, Cosmology, and Cosmography." In F. A. C. Mantello
and A. G. Rigg (eds.),
Medieval Latin: An Introduction
and Bibliographical Guide.
Washington, D. C.: The Catholic
University of America Press, 1996 , 363-368.
"Aristotelianism in the Early 12th Cent."
1996
"When did Modern Science Begin?"
The American Scholar, Winter 1997 :
105-113.
"Celestial Motions in the Late Middle Ages."
Early Science and Medicine 2, no. 2 (June 1997) ,
Special Issue: "Medieval Cosmologies," edited by J. M. M. H. Thijssen,
129-148.
"Nicole Oresme, Aristotle's
On the
Heavens
, and the Court of Charles V." In
Texts and Contexts in Ancient and Medieval Science:
Studies on the Occasion of John E. Murdoch's Seventieth Birthday
,
edited by Edith Sylla and Michael McVaugh. Leiden: Brill, 1997 ,
187-207.
"The Medieval Cosmos: Its Structure and Operation."
Journal for the History of Astronomy 28,
(1997) :
147-167.
"Medieval Concepts of Force, Resistance, and Velocity."
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Subseries:
Reviews, 1961-1998
All of the following reviews were written by Dr. Grant
Box 17
Wallace, William A. Review of
The Scientific
Methodology of Theodoric of Freiberg: A Case Study of the Relationship
between Science and Philosophy.
Reviewed in
Speculum 36, (Jan. 1961) : 188-194.
Gundell. Review of
Weltbild und Astrologie in
den Griechischen Zauberpapyri
1962
Crombie, A. C., ed. Review of
Scientific
Change.
Reviewed in
American Biology
Teacher
26, no. 3 (March 1964) : 216-218.
Lewis, C. S. Review of
The Discarded Image:
An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
Reviewed
in
Isis 56, part 1, no. 183 (1965) :
99-100.
Beaujouan, Guy. Review of
Manuscrits
Scientifiques Medievaux de L'Universite de Salamanque et de Ses "Colegios
Mayores."
Reviewed in
Isis 56, part
2, no. 184 (1965) : 239-240.
St. Thomas Aquinas. Review of
Commentary on
Aristotle's Physics.
Translated by Richard J. Blackwell, Richard
J. Spath, and W. Edmund Thirlkel. Reviewed in
Isis 56, part 4, no. 186 (1965) : 474-475.
Baron, Roger, ed. Review of
Hugonis de Sancto
Victore Opera Propaedeutica: Practica Geometriae, de Grammatica, Epitome
Dindimi in Philosophiam.
Reviewed in
Isis 59, (1968) : 342-343.
Drake. Review of
Two News Sciences by
Galileo.
1968-1972
Drake, Stillman and I. E. Drabkin. Review of
Mechanics in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Selections from Tartaglia,
Benedetti, Guido Ubaldo, & Galileo.
Reviewed in
Renaissance Quarterly 24, no. 3 (Autumn 1971) :
381-383.
Talbot, H. Review of
Medicine in Medieval
England.
Reviewed in
Science 171,
no. 3966 (1971) : 55.
Pedersen, Olaf and Mogens Pihl. Review of
Early Physics and Astronomy. Reviewed in
Journal for the History of Astronomy 7, (1976) : 201-204.
Review of
Lexikon des Mittelalters.
Reviewed in
Journal of the History of Medicine and
Allied Sciences
34, (July 1979) : 382-383.
Murray, Alexander. Review of
Reason and
Society in the Middle Ages.
Reviewed in
Isis 71, no. 257 (June 1980) : 340-341.
Gillispie, Charles C., ed. Review of
The
Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
Reviewed in "The DSB: A
Review Symposium" by Donald Fleming, Joseph Needham, Edward Grant, and
Jacques Roger in
Isis 71, (1980) :
633-652.
Hilfstein, Erna, Czartoryski, Pawel, and Frank D. Grande. Review of
Science and History: Studies in Honor of Edward
Rosen.
Reviewed in
Renaissance
Quarterly
34, no. 2 (Summer 1981) : 213-215.
Wallace, William A. Review of
Prelude to
Galileo: Essays on Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Sources of Galileo's
Thought.
Reviewed in
Science 214, no.
4516 (October
1981) : 55-56.
White, Lynn. Review of
Medieval Religion and
Technology: Collected Essays.
Reviewed in
Archives Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences 31, no. 106
(1981) :
215-217.
Poulle, Emmanuel. Review of
Les Sources
Astronomiques (Textes, Tables, Instruments).
Reviewed in
Isis 73, no. 269 (1982) : 596-597.
Maier, Anneliese. Review of
On the Threshold
of Exact Science: Selected Writings of Anneliese Maier on Late Medieval
Natural Philosophy.
Reviewed in
Isis
74, no. 271 (1983) : 130-131.
Schmitt. Review of
Aristotle and the
Renaissance.
1983
Jordanus de Nemore. Review of
De Numeris
Datis.
Translated by Barnabas Bernard Hughes. Reviewed in
Historia Mathematica, (1983) : 125-129.
Olson, Richard. Review of
Science Deified and
Science Defied: The Historical Significance of Science in Western Culture
from the Bronze Age to the Beginnings of the Modern Era ca. 3500 B.C. to
ca. A. D. 1640.
Reviewed in
Journal of the
History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
39, (Jan. 1984) :
88-89.
Ferruolo, Stephen C. Review of
The Origins of
the University: The Schools of Paris and their Critics,
1100-1215.
Reviewed in
History of Education
Quarterly
26, no. 3 (Fall 1986) : 435-437.
Hansen, Bert, ed. Review of
Nicole Oresme and
the Marvels of Nature: A Study of His "De Causis Mirabilium" with
Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary.
Reviewed in
Isis 77, no. 286 (1986) : 186-187.
Jardine, Nicholas. Review of
The Birth of
History and Philosophy of Science: Kepler's "A Defence of Tycho against
Ursus" with Essays on its Provenance and Significance.
Reviewed
in
Journal for the History of Astronomy 17,
part 2, (May
1986) : 137-140.
Pedersen, Fritz Saaby, ed. Review of
Philomena de Dacia and Petrus de Sancto Audomaro, Opera Quadrivialia, 1:
Opera Petri Philomenae; 2. Opera Petri de Sancto
Audomaro.
Reviewed in
Speculum 61,
(1986) :
248.
Review of
Burley on Motion in a
Vacuum
1987
Duhem, Pierre. Review of
Medieval Cosmology:
Theories of Infinity, Place, Time Void, and the Plurality of
Worlds.
Reviewed in
Speculum 62, no.
4 (Oct.
1987) : 927-929.
Gottfried. Review of
Medieval Science and
Society
1987
Pflanze. Review of
The Impact of
Money...
1987
North, John D. Review of
Chaucer's
Universe.
Reviewed in
Journal for the
History of Astronomy
21, (1990) : 215-217.
Cobban, Alan B. Review of
The Medieval
English Universities: Oxford and Cambridge to c. 1500.
Reviewed
in
Libraries & Culture, a Journal of Library
History
25, no. 2 (Spring 1990) : 276-277.
Review of
Oresme and Relativity of
Motion.
1990
Kieckhefer, Richard. Review of
Magic in the
Middle Ages.
Reviewed in
American
Historical Review
96, (June 1991) : 853-854.
Dahlstrom, Daniel D., ed. Review of
Nature
and Scientific Method
Reviewed in
The
Review of Metaphysics.
, (Sept. 1992) : 149-151.
Review of
Oresme and Ratios of Lesser
Inequality
1991
Iorio, Dominick A. Review of
The
Aristotelians of Renaissance Italy, A Philosophical Exposition.
Reviewed in
Isis 84, (1993).
de Ridder-Symoens, Hilde, ed. Review of
A
History of the University in Europe.
Reviewed in
History of Education Quarterly 33, no. 3 (Fall 1993) :
395-398.
Unpublished review for
Technology and
Culture
1998
Schmitt. Review of
Experience and
Experiment.
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