Cambridge Elsewhere Memories Sir William by Dampier Sir William Cecil (7 results)

Condition: Good. Little wear to boards. Content is clean. Complete DJ has little edge wear and light toning.

Condition: Good. Little wear to boards. Content is clean. Complete DJ has little edge wear and light toning.

Condition: Good. Little wear to boards. Content is clean. Complete DJ has little edge wear and light toning.

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Signed/Inscribed by author's granddaughter on front endpage. Dust jacket price clipped. (literature, memoir).

Hardcover. x, 149, [1] p.; 8 pl.; 22 cm. `The slow revival in Europe began in Byzantium and passed to Italy, while a separate movement appeared in northern countries. In the thirteenth century the works of Aristotle were rediscovered and translated into Latin, first from Arabic versions and then directly from the Greek. A second philosophic synthesis was put together by Albertus Magnus and St. Thomas Aquinas, and Christian doctrines were combined with Aristotelian science and philosophy in the great system of Scholasticism. Aristotle's modified Platonism was nearer a belief in the reality of individuals or "nominalism" than was Plato's theory that reality was only found in ideas or classes, and nominalism was a better philosophic background for the beginnings, if not for the modern depths of science, than Plato's idealistic realism. Most men of science talk nominalism without knowing it, as Monsieur Jourdain talked prose.' (p. 119 f.) VG orig. light green boards in blue dj. Edges & jacket lt. foxed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by the Author Also a signed letter from the author to Sir William Gavin, 13th February 1951. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Produktart: Bücher.