Title: Nicole Oresme. Questiones in Meteorologica de ultima lectura, recensio parisiensis. Study of the Manuscript Tradition and Critical Edition of Books I-II.10, edited by A. Panzica (Leiden and Boston, 2021)
Abstract: Nicole Oresme (ca.1320-1382) is one of the most outstanding mathematicians, philosophers and theologians of the late Middle Ages.In general, his work is nowadays very well-known.Motivated by the pioneering investigations of Pierre Duhem and Anneliese Maier, several generations of scholars have put the best of their efforts forward in finding new manuscript copies of his writings, in translating and interpreting them and, perhaps the more substantial task of all, in editing them.Oresme's monumental work has recently turned again into the focus of attention with the publication of new studies, papers and editions of texts which are by him or, at least, attributed to him.In its variety and complexity, Oresme's work includes commentaries to several Aristotelian works on practical and natural philosophy (logic does not seem to have the focus of Oresme's attention, but, instead, mathematics), in Latin and, not to be dismissed, in French as well.Besides, the transmission of his writings represents a research case in itself: Many of his works are extant in different versions, and while some of them are conveyed in only one manuscript (that seems to be the case for the questions of the Physics, as far as we know), others were eagerly copied and widespread.