TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaye,Joel
TI  - A History of Balance, 1250–1375: The Emergence of a New Model of Equilibrium and its Impact on Thought 
SN  - 9781139236225 (ebook)
AV  - B721 .K35 2014
U1  - 189 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Philosophy, Medieval
KW  - Harmony (Philosophy)
KW  - Equilibrium
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - The ideal of balance and its association with what is ordered, just, and healthful remained unchanged throughout the medieval period. The central place allotted to balance in the workings of nature and society also remained unchanged. What changed within the culture of scholasticism, between approximately 1280 and 1360, was the emergence of a greatly expanded sense of what balance is and can be. In this groundbreaking history of balance, Joel Kaye reveals that this new sense of balance and its potentialities became the basis of a new model of equilibrium, shaped and shared by the most acute and innovative thinkers of the period. Through a focus on four disciplines - scholastic economic thought, political thought, medical thought, and natural philosophy - Kaye's book reveals that this new model of equilibrium opened up striking new vistas of imaginative and speculative possibility, making possible a profound re-thinking of the world and its workings
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139236225
ER  -