{"product_id":"gaietanus-de-thienis-janduno-joannes-de","title":"GAIETANUS de THIENIS; JANDUNO, Joannes de.","description":"\u003cp\u003e.A very good copy of the second edition of this important incunabular collection of three Aristotelian commentaries, the first two being milestones of early psychology. Gaietanus de Thiene (1387-1465?) was professor of philosophy and medicine at Padua, where he introduced, through his commentaries, many philosophical theories from England and France.  As far as we know, most of these commentaries were written for use in a university setting. As a consequence, the choice of texts commented upon and the degree of detail given to a certain passage is often due, at least in part, to its use in a classroom, a universitarian debate or its relevance for exams  (Stan. Enc. Phil.). Gaietanus s commentary on Aristotle s  De anima    which has been called the first book of scientific psychology   was read by medical students to understand how a creature could be defined as  living  or  having a soul , the nature and kinds of soul (vegetative, animal, rational, etc.), reproduction, nutrition, the senses and the concept of sensation, the intellect, and movement according to the number of senses possessed. These fundamental questions were argued by physicians, for instance, when determining whether\/when a foetus was  alive  or how movements are generated through the brain and nerves. Partly influenced by Averroism, Gaietanus provides short Latin excerpts from  De anima , followed by commentary.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n . Quaestiones de sensu agente , was written entirely by Gaietanus. Its subject, clearly inspired by  De anima , is  sensus agens  (active sense), which had been explored by the Scholastics and Averroists alike. Active sense was used to explain the act of cognition and perception through the senses, i.e., how the soul is affected by the external object it perceives (e.g., when it  memorizes  it), and how the soul perceives the object in the first place (e.g., when the eye is filled with light). It is followed by two similar  quaestiones , argued by Gaietanus, on the common senses ( De sensibilibus communibus ) and the intellect ( De intellectu ). \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n .The third is a commentary on Averroes s treatise on substance that constitutes the earth by Joannes de Janduno (or Jean de Jandun or Johannes de Gandavo) (c.1285-1323), French philosopher and theologian, professor at Paris. The work investigates whether the form and matter of the heavens as a whole is the same as that of terrestrial bodies, discussing the movement and nature of the heavens, whether they are animate or inanimate, corruptible or incorruptible.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n .This copy was in two northern Italian convents, one of Augustinian Hermits, the other, Dominican, probably located in Piacenza. The earlier (cursive) annotator   Anselmo Vincetini - was interested in the intellect, glossing a passage, in the commentary to  De anima , with detailed references to interpretations by the medieval Augustinian philosopher Egidio Romano, mentioned by Gaietanus. In  De sensu agente , he glossed two sections on the interaction of the active sense and the soul, with references to the theories of Agostino Nifo. The slightly later annotator glossed passages in Book I on the difference in the soul and intellect of humans and animals, and the  accidents  of knowledge and perception, \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n .ISTC dates this to 23 December 1493, following the colophon date  decimo kal. Januarias 1493 , GW suggests 1492. This depends on the reference system, the date in 1493 according to the Julian or 1492 according to the Gregorian calendar.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GAIETANUS de THIENIS; JANDUNO, Joannes de.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57859668050255,"sku":"L4011","price":9750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L4011-1-1.jpg?v=1781793685","url":"https:\/\/sokol-books-ltd.myshopify.com\/products\/gaietanus-de-thienis-janduno-joannes-de","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}