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In order to illustrate the theoretical definitions of nature commonly shared in the mid-thirteenth century in Europe, we translate and comment on the definition of nature given in the “Mirror of Sciences” (Speculum doctrinale XV, ch. 4) compiled by a Dominican friar, Vincent of Beauvais. While complex, this European fourfold definition reflects to a degree all the theoretical conceptions of nature used at this time, including the literary heritage available, some theological definitions and the new inputs from natural philosophy (Arabo- and Greco-Latin translations). It synthetizes the conceptions of nature, some of which go back to Augustine of Hippo (fifth century), to William of Conches (twelfth century), to Aristotle and to the medical school of Salerno until the beginning of the thirteenth century.

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International audience; The first International Workshop on Semantic Web for Scientific Heritage was held in conjunction with the 12th ESWC 2015 Conference on June 1, in Portoroz, Slovenia and provided a leading international and interdisciplinary forum for disseminating the latest research in the field of Semantic Web for the preservation and exploitation of our scientific heritage, the study of the history of ideas and their transmission. Classicists and historians are interested in developing textual databases, in order to gather and explore large amounts of primary source materials. For a long time, they mainly focused on text digitization and markup. They only recently decided to try to explore the possibility of transferring some analytical processes they previously thought incompatible with automation to knowledge engineering systems, thus taking advantage of the growing set of tools and techniques based on the languages and standards of the semantic Web, such as linked data, ontologies, and automated reasoning. The iconographic data, which are also relevant in history of science and arise similar problematic could be addressed as well and offer suggestive insights for a global methodology for diverse media. On the other hand, Semantic Web researchers are willing to take up more ambitious challenges than those arising in the native context of the Web in terms of anthropological complexity, addressing meta-semantic problems of flexible, pluralist or evolutionary ontologies, sources heterogeneity, hermeneutic and rhetoric dimensions. Thus the opportunity for a fruitful encounter of knowledge engineers with computer-savvy historians and classicists has come. This encounter may be inscribed within the more general context of digital humanities, a research area at the intersection of computing and the humanities disciplines which is gaining an ever-increasing momentum and where the Linked Open Data is playing an increasingly prominent role.

L’« utilité fraternelle », la « bibliothèque en réduction », le « bonheur futur » recherchés par les compilateurs encyclopédiques sont dictés selon les cas par des patrons spirituels ou des modèles d’enquête naturaliste. Au-delà des auctoritates (sources) avouées, l’examen des termes utilisés par le compilateur et la recherche des références implicites contenues dans ses interventions personnelles permettent de découvrir des modèles discrets mais puissants, qui justifient son intérêt pour le monde et dictent son exposé des « propriétés » des choses. De la quête de la vérité divine invisible à travers les créatures visibles, à la veritas rationis pour le plaisir de l’enquête naturaliste, on peut montrer qu’entre le viie et le xiiie siècle s’accroît la curiositas avec la domination progressive du modèle philosophique aristotélicien sur le regard exégétique. The “fraternal usefulness”, the “library in miniature” and the “future happiness” sought by the compilers of encyclopedias are derived either from patron saints or from models of investigation of nature. If we look beyond the cited auctoritates (sources) and examine the terms used by the compilers and look for implicit references contained in passages where the authorial voice is present, we can uncover discrete but powerful models that justify the compiler’s interest in the world and lie behind his presentation of the “properties” of things. Between the 7th and the 13th century we can trace the development of encyclopedic thought from the quest for an invisible divine truth perceived through visible creation to the veritas rationis and the pleasure of the investigation of nature, with the increasing overtaking of the exegetical by the Aristotelian philosophical model.

[A short astrological treatise about the properties of the planets in the zodiac, called De motibus / iudiciis planetarum and attributed to Ptolemy (inc. Sub Saturno sunt hec signa Capricornus et Aquarius et sunt eius domus), appears from the thirteenth century onwards in two distinct traditions: in the encyclopedias of Bartholomew the Englishman and Arnold of Saxony, both written around 1230–1240, and in astronomical miscellanies copied in the fifteenth century either in or around Basel and in Northern Italy. These fifteenth-century manuscripts fall into two distinct groups of astronomical texts: the first is copied together with the De signis of Michael Scot, the second together with a part of the third book of Hyginus' De astronomia. The present article aims to describe the characteristics of the distinct textual filiations of De m. / iud. pl. and gives the first critical edition of the text., A short astrological treatise about the properties of the planets in the zodiac, called De motibus / iudiciis planetarum and attributed to Ptolemy (inc. Sub Saturno sunt hec signa Capricornus et Aquarius et sunt eius domus), appears from the thirteenth century onwards in two distinct traditions: in the encyclopedias of Bartholomew the Englishman and Arnold of Saxony, both written around 1230–1240, and in astronomical miscellanies copied in the fifteenth century either in or around Basel and in Northern Italy. These fifteenth-century manuscripts fall into two distinct groups of astronomical texts: the first is copied together with the De signis of Michael Scot, the second together with a part of the third book of Hyginus' De astronomia. The present article aims to describe the characteristics of the distinct textual filiations of De m. / iud. pl. and gives the first critical edition of the text.]

Mise au point sur la decouverte de differentes oeuvres produites par Arnold de Saxe dans la premiere moitie du 13e siecle, en plus du "De floribus rerum naturalium" (encyclopedie qui fut editee par E. Stange en 1905 mais sous nom errone "De finibus rerum"). Mise au jour d'un traite de medecine (Practica medicine - De egrotantibus partibus omnium membrorum a capite usque ad pedes), d'un traite des vertus et des vices (De iudiciis virtutum et viciorum), et d'un petit dialogue moral (Liber notabilium de consolatione Senecae) a l'imitation du "De remediis fortuitorum".

Draelants Isabelle. Le Liber Paradoxi : un pseudo-Cicéron du XIIe siècle ?. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 80, fasc. 2, 2002. Histoire médiévale, moderne et contemporaine - Middeleeewse. moderne en hedendaagse geschiedenis. pp. 401-411.