Towards the Modern Theory of Motion

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The problem of the continuity of science from the medieval to the modern times of the 17th century, when Galileo and Newton developed the correct theory of mechanics, occupied historians of science from the beginning of the 20th century. Some believe that the fourteenth-century English scholars who created the School of Oxford Calculators and their French and Italian followers. with their solutions, laid the foundations for the development of modern physics. Others believe that medieval natural philosophy made no contribution to the development of modern science. The presented book is a voice in this discussion and an attempt to answer the question about the continuity of science. Considering how much has been discovered, edited and written about the Oxford Calculators, the book reviews and compares the results of our research with works of the other historians' research into the intellectual heritage of these 14th century English thinkers in order to enrich and update the views on the Oxford Calculators' natural philosophy in perhaps its most fundamental aspect at least from the point of view of Aristotle's philosophy namely the subject of science of local motion.