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Key facts
- Born
- c. 1301 , Béthune , Picardy , Kingdom of France
- Died
- c. 1359 – c. 1362
- Alma mater
- Collège du Cardinal Lemoine University of Paris
- Era
- Medieval philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Scholasticism Nominalism Aristotelianism
- Institutions
- University of Paris
- Main interests
- Logic Grammar Metaphysics Natural philosophy Ethics
- Notable ideas
- Theory of impetus Modernization of Aristotelian logic Buridan's bridge
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Johannes
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of France
- Place of birth
- Béthune
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- University of Paris
- Employer
- University of Paris
- Languages spoken
- Old French
- Native language
- Old French
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Student of
- William of Ockham
- Field of work
- theology
- Movement
- nominalism
- Image
- Iohannes Buridanus (Paris ca. 1370, Kraków cod. BJ 1771, fol. 142v).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1295-00-00
- date of death
- 1358-00-00
- student
- Albertus de Saxonia
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- name in native language
- Jean Buridan
- influenced by
- Aristotle
- time period
- medieval philosophy
- Commons category
- Jean Buridan
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Works in European collections
16 objects attributed to Jean Buridan, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Questi¯oes [et] decisi¯oes physicales insignium virorum Alberti de Saxonia In octo libros physicorum, Tres libros de celo & mundo, Duos lib. de g¯natione & corrupti¯oe Thimonis In quatuor libros Meteorum. Buridani In Aristotelis tres lib. de anima [et. al.] ...
Cōmentū magistri Johānis dorp super textu summularum magistri Johannes Buridani
Consequentie magistri Johannis Buridani
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[Commentaren op Aristoteles' Physica, De caelo et mundo, De anima]
Questiones Iohannis buridani super octo libros politicorum Aristotelis nuperrime diligentissina cura correcte emendate necnon singulis in marginibus annotate
Questiones Iohannis buridani super octo libros politicorum Aristotelis nuperrime diligentissina cura correcte emendate necnon singulis in marginibus annotate
Questiones Joannis Buridani super decem libros Ethicoru Aristotelis ad Nicomachum
Ioannis Buridani super decem books ethicoru aristotelis ad nicomachum
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Encyclopedic overview
Jean Buridan (/ˈbjʊərɪdən/; French: [byʁidɑ̃]; Latin: Johannes Buridanus; c. 1301 – c. 1359/62) was an influential 14th‑century French scholastic philosopher.
Buridan taught in the faculty of arts at the University of Paris for his entire career and focused in particular on logic and on the works of Aristotle. Buridan sowed the seeds of the Copernican Revolution in Europe. He developed the concept of impetus, the first step toward the modern concept of inertia and an important development in the history of medieval science. His name is most familiar through the thought experiment known as Buridan's ass, but the thought experiment does not appear in his extant writings.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jean Buridan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.