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He bless you, Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy podcast, brought to you with the support of the Philosophy Department at Kings

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Today's episode, Full of philosophy. net. Today's episode, full of potential, 13th century physics. If someone

asked you to summarize the place of medieval philosophy and the history of Western science in only two

sentences, you could do worse than to say. In the medieval period, science was based largely on

Aristotle. Early modern thinkers had to free themselves from Aristotelianism to launch the scientific

revolution. On the other hand, you could also do a lot better. Of course, any two-sentence

summary of a whole philosophical age is likely to be misleading.

The only perfect one that comes to mind for me is, medieval philosophy is really interesting.

There's this great podcast about it, which you should really check out. is really

check out. But is particularly misleading to portray the

medieval's as backward-thinking Aristotelians. True, they did devote

considerable effort to understanding Aristotle's newly available works on natural philosophy and related material from the Islamic world, but they were not backward thinking.

Some of the new ideas that emerged in early modern science

have their ultimate roots in commentaries on Aristotle's physics

composed beginning around the middle of the 13th century,

and some of these innovations were put forward. beginning around the middle of the 13th century.

And some of these innovations were put forward by that shadowy, multifaceted thinker we have

come not to know, but to love anyway, anonymous. When we think about the deficiencies of the ancient's natural philosophy, the first thing to

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