<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hanke, Miroslav</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Mathematics of Natural Action in Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Scholasticism (Hurtado, Arriaga, Oviedo, Compton)</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Filozofia</style></secondary-title><translated-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Mathematics of Natural Action in Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Scholasticism (Hurtado, Arriaga, Oviedo, Compton)</style></translated-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Francisco de Oviedo</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jesuit scholasticism</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">natural action</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Natural philosophy</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Oxford Calculators</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rodrigo de Arriaga</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">sphere of action</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Thomas Compton Carleton</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2024</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/0619173710.31577filozofia.2024.79.6.2.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">79</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">593 - 607</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">This paper discusses the notion of the “sphere of action” (sphaera activitatis) as developed by a group of seventeenth-century Jesuit intellectuals: Hurtado, Arriaga, Oviedo, and Compton. The problem inherited from fourteenth-century natural philosophers was to describe natural action which is spatially limited and decreases with distance at a regular rate. To capture natural patterns, scholastic philosophers introduced various forms of regularity or “uniformity,” the relevant type for the present context being “uniform difformity.” While the scholastic tradition also defined more sophisticated forms of regularity, these were not part of the discussion in the analyzed corpus.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></issue><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">State</style></work-type><custom6><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original Articles</style></custom6></record></records></xml>