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Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

7/1/1978 - 8/31/1978

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)

Tractus de indivisibilibus

FAIN: FT-14093-78

Rega Wood
Saint Bonaventure University (St. Bonaventure, NY 14778-9800)

To complete an edition of Adam Wodeham, O.F.M.'s Tractatus de indivisibilibus. Treatise will be published with an introduction composed jointly by Murdoch (Chairman of History Department of History of Science, Harvard) and PI. Into the 16th century, Adam Wodeham was regarded as a great philosopher Independent of his famous teacher, William of Ockham. An edition of the Tractatus may help to elucidate the relation between Wodeham and Ockham. This work will be an important contribution to the study of the 14th century atomist controversy.