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The Aristotelianism of the period 1450–1650 presents a picture which differs radically from the university philosophy of the Middle Ages. Despite the many late medieval developments in logic and physics which would eventually contribute to the breakdown of Aristotelian science, the Aristotelianism of the earlier period remained predominantly clerical and offered an essentially unified world-view. But in the sixteenth century this unity broke down, so that we must speak not of one but of several Aristotelianisms in the Renaissance.1
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Charles Schmitt contributed a great deal to the formulation of the idea of a “Renaissance Aristotelianism” distinct from that of the Middle Ages and important in its own right. See his Critical Survey and Bibliography of Studies on Renaissance Aristotelianism, 1958–1969 (Padua, 1971)
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Schmitt prepared a second edition of the important catalogue of sixteenth-century editions, Latin translations of and commentaries on Aristotle published by F. E. Cranz as A Bibliography of Aristotle Editions, 1501–1600 (Baden-Baden, 1971; 2nd ed. with addenda and revisions, Baden-Baden, 1984).
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C. H. Lohr, “Jesuit Aristotélianism and Sixteenth-Century Metaphysics,” in Paradosis: Studies in Memory of E. A. Quain (New York, 1976), 203–220
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Lohr, C.H. (1991). The Sixteenth-Century Transformation of the Aristotelian Division of the Speculative Sciences. In: Kelley, D.R., Popkin, R.H. (eds) The Shapes of Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 124. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3238-1_4
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