William of Heytesbury
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates William of Heytesbury, or William Heytesbury, or William de Heytisbury, called in Latin Guglielmus Hentisberus or Tisberus (c. 1313 – 1372/1373), was an English philosopher and logician, best known as one of the Oxford Calculators of Merton College, Oxford, where he was a fellow. Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image
Life
Heytesbury had become a fellow of Merton by 1330. In his work he applied logical techniques to the problems of divisibility, the continuum, and kinematics. His magnum opus was the Regulae solvendi sophismata (Rules for Solving Sophisms), written about 1335.[1]
He was Chancellor of the University of Oxford for the year 1371 to 1372.[2]
Works
- 1335 - Regulae solvendi sophismata (Rules for Solving Sophisms)
- 1. On insoluble sentences
- 2. On knowing and doubting
- 3. On relative terms
- 4. On beginning and ceasing
- 5. On maxima and minima
- 6. On the three categories (De tribus praedicamentis)
- 1483 - De probationibus conclusionum tractatus regularum solvendi sophismata (On the Proofs of Conclusions from the Treatise of Rules for Resolving Syllogisms) - Pavia
- Liber Calculationum
Notes
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Further reading
- Sylla, Edith (1982), "The Oxford Calculators", in Norman Kretzmann, Anthony Kenny & Pinborg (edd.), The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy.
- Murdoch, John (1982), "Infinity and Continuity", in Kretzmann, Kenny & Pinborg (edd.), The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy.
- Curtis, Wilson (1956), William Heytesbury. Medieval Logic and the Rise of Mathematical Physics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
External links
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