Thomas Bradwardine
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Thomas Bradwardine (also Bradwardinus , Bradwardina , doctor profundus by his contemporaries ) (* around 1290 in Chichester or Hartfield , Sussex ; † August 26, 1349 in London ) was an English mathematician , philosopher and theologian and one of the Oxford Calculators .
Thomas Bradwardine studied at Merton College and Balliol College of Oxford University . In the years 1325 and 1327 he held the office of procurator of the university. In 1337 Thomas Bradwardine became Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral in London. From 1339 he accompanied Edward III. as a confessor on his campaigns in France. A few weeks before his death, Bradwardine was elected Archbishop of Canterbury in 1349 and consecrated in Avignon . His studies of free fall are particularly significant . Long before Galileo Galilei , he suspected that all bodies fall at the same speed in a vacuum .
literature
- Thomas Bradwardine (Author); George Molland (Ed.): Geometria speculativa . Steiner-Verlag Wiesbaden, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-515-05020-5 , also: Dissertation, University of Cambridge, 1967 (Latin text and English translation, with introduction and comments)
- Gordon Leff: Bradwardine and the Pelagians. A Study of his 'De Causa Dei' and its Opponents. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-08162-7 .
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : BRADWARDINA, Thomas von. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 724-725.
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Bradwardine in the catalog of the German National Library
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Thomas Bradwardine. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- De causa dei , facsimiles of the London 1618 edition at archive.org .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales. Frankfurt / Main 1987, p. 752
predecessor | Office | successor |
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John de Ufford |
Archbishop of Canterbury 1349 |
Simon Islip |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bradwardine, Thomas |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bradwardinus, Thomas; Bradwardina, Thomas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English mathematician, philosopher and theologian |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1290 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Chichester or Hartfield , Sussex |
DATE OF DEATH | August 26, 1349 |
Place of death | London |