The natural philosophy of Antonius Andreae.

Like his master, John Duns Scotus, Antonius Andreae was not a naturalist, even for the standards of his epoch. Yet he acknowledged the importance of natural philosophy for the Aristotelian system of knowledge, which was the foundation of the pre-modern worldview. Consequently, he was concerned to address certain problems regarding natural substances in his works, most of all in his Quaestiones de tribus principiis naturae, but also in the commentaries on Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Categories, and, occasionally, in the Abbreviatio Operis Oxoniensis. These problems included the question of the subject matter of physics, the nature of physical processes, with a special focus on processes of generation and corruption, and the characteristics of bodies as objects of these processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]