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Ciência e demonstração matemática: Aristóteles e Euclides à luz dos Conimbricenses

2007; University of Lisbon; Volume: 35; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1484/j.euphr.5.125625

2736-3082

Bernardo Mota,

Historical Philosophy and Science

The status of mathematics was a main subject of discussion and teaching in the 16th and 17th centuries. Philosophers and mathematicians tried to understand the reasons why Euclidean mathematics fitted the Aristotelian model of science. Sebastiao do Couto gathered widespread arguments against mathematics usually taught by Jesuit philosophers in his Commentarii Collegii Conimbricensis e Societate Iesu In Vniuersam Dialecticam Aristotelis Stagiritae (1606). This work represented the late scholastic final outcome of fifty years reasoning on the scientific status of mathematics. We intend to explain Couto's views on the topic and to display the reasons why his work should be considered a milestone in the story of the Aristotelian model of science.