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The a posteriori foundations of natural science

Some medieval commentaries on Aristotle's Physics, book I, chapters 1 and 2

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Sylla, E.D. The a posteriori foundations of natural science. Synthese 40, 147–187 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413949

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