On the threshold of exact science : selected writings of Anneliese Maier on late medieval natural philosophy / edited and translated with an introduction by Steven D. Sargent.

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.

xiv, 173 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes index

Bibliography: p. x-xiv

The nature of motion -- Causes, forces, and resistance -- The concept of the function in fourteenth-century physics -- The significance of the theory of impetus for Scholastic natural philosophy -- Galileo and the Scholastic theory of impetus -- The theory of the elements and the problem of their participation in compounds -- The achievements of late Scholastic natural philosophy.