Thomas Bradwardine

A page from Thomas Bradwardine's treatise De causa dei contra Pelagianos in the manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale , Conv. soppr. G.III.418, fol. 83r

Geometria speculativa , 1495

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. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

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
John de Ufford	Archbishop of Canterbury 1349	Simon Islip

personal data
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

[1] Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales. Frankfurt / Main 1987, p. 752