An Aristotelian response to Renaissance humanism: Jacopo Zabarella on the nature of arts and sciences

Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ........................................ ..................... 7
1. INTRODUCTION................................................................... 9
1.1. Humanism and science ................................................. 9
1.2. Aristotelianism at Padua............................................... 12
1.3. The nature of arts and sciences .................................... 14
1.4. Jacopo Zabarella: his life and works............................. 18
2. ARTS AND SCIENCES IN ZABARELLA'S THOUGHT ....... 21
2.1. Aristotle on arts and sciences....................................... 21
2.2. Contemplative sciences and productive arts............... 25
2.3. The primacy of theoretical sciences ............................. 30
2.4. Putting sciences 4J. order............................................... 35
2.5. The perfection of natural philosophy........................... 40
3. LOGIC AS AN INSTRUMENT OF SCIENCE ........................ 45
3.1. The nature of logic ........................................................ 45
3.2. The use of logic ............................................................. 50
3.3. Rhetoric and poetry as logical disciplines................... 59
3.4. Poetry and moral instruction........................................ 67
4. THE METHODOLOGY 8F ARTS AND SCIENCES.............. 80
4.1. Orders of presentation................................................... 80
4.2. Methods of demonstration............................................ 85
4.3. Induction and the regress-method................................ 92
4.4. Sense-perception and reasoning ................................... 101
5. ART AND NATURE IN THE ARISTOTELIAN
TRADITION ............................................................................ 107
5.1. Aristotelian tradition: art imitates nature ............... ~ .... 107
5.2. A Renaissance dilemma: can an art compete with
nature? ........................................................................... 111
5.3. Mechanics: a mediator between art and nature ........... 119
6. THE MEDICAL TRADITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
PADUA ..... : ............................................................. , .............. 131
6.1. From Pietro d'Abano to Leoniceno's medical
humanism ...................................................................... 131
6.2. The nature of medical knowledge: art or science? ....... 135
6.3. Anatomy as the basis of medical science ..................... 148
6.4. Zabarella's response to medical humanism ................. 159
7. ARTS AND.SCIENCES AT PADUA IN THE SIXTEENTH
CENTURY .............................................................................. 178
ABBREVIATIONS ....................................................................... 182
BIBLIOGRAPHY ......................................................................... 183
INDEX OF NAMES ..................................................................... 195