Analysis and bilingual translation of epistle of Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt to Sygerus of Foncaucourt: Concerning the magnet (De magnete)
Keywords:
Petrus Peregrinus, Medieval Physics, Magnetism, Philosophy of Science, 13th century
Abstract
This paper offers the first translation into Spanish of the letter De magnete by Peter the Pilgrim of Maricourt dated in 1269. Following an experimental method, the author describes the polarity of the magnets, the laws of attraction, the immediacy of iron, the process by which polarity changes, the orientation of the lodestone to the northern and southern poles of the Earth, as well as the construction of three physical instruments with a practical use based on knowledge of the nature of the magnet: a perpetual motion wheel and two types of compasses. The article is headed by a brief introduction in which the available biographical data on the author is exposed and the work is histrorically and thematically contextualized.
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Bertelli, Timoteo (1868). «Sopra Pietro Peregrino di Maricourt e la sua Epistola de Magnete». Roma: Tipografia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche, Bulletino publicata da B. Boncompagni, I, pp. 1-32.
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Dunbabin, Jean (1998). Charles I of Anjou: Power, Kingship and State-Making in Thirteenth-Century Europe. Nueva York: Routledge.
Galilei Galileo (1981). El ensayador. Buenos Aires: Editorial Aguilar.
García-Guijarro Ramos, Luis (1995). Papado, cruzadas y órdenes militares, siglos XI-XIII. Madrid: Cátedra.
Gennaro, Michele (2005). Federico II Hohenstaufen. Profilo di un grande imperatore. Roma: Filo
Georgescu, Laura (2013). «One Experiment, Different Uses: Floating Magnetic Bodies in Peregrinus, Norman and Gilbert». Journal of Early Modern Studies 2, nº I, Special Issue: The Creative Role of Experimentation in Early Modern Science, editado por Dana Jalobeanu, pp. 81-104.
Gilbert, William (1600). De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure, On the Magnet, edición y notas de Silvanus P. Thompson. Londres: Chiswick Press, 1900.
Harradon, H.D. (1943). «Some Early Contributions to the History of Geomagnetism». Journal of Geophysical Research 1: pp: 3-5. doi: 10.1029/TE048i001p00003.
King, W. James (1959). «The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors». Contributions From the Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Instituion Bulletin 218: pp. 125–129.
Minecan, Ana Maria C. (2017). «Las operaciones ocultas de la naturaleza: Tomás de Aquino y la introducción de dos tipos de anomalías en la estructura física aristotélica». Ágora Papeles de Filosofía 36, nº 1: pp.31-51.
Mosley A., (2005). «Petrus Peregrinus» En The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, editada por T. Hockey. Berlín: Springer.
Petrus Peregrinus (1558). Petri Peregrini Maricurtensis De magnete, seu Rota perpetui Motus libellus. L. Gasser, Achilles Pirmin.
Petrus Peregrinus (1904). The Letter of Petrus Peregrinus: On the Magnet, edición de Brother Arnold. Nueva York: McGraw Publishing Complany.
Petrus Peregrinus (1995). Opera: Epistola de magnete; Nova compositio astrolabii particularis, edición de Loris Sturlese y Ron B. Thomson. Pisa: Scuola Normale Superioire.
Radelet de Grave, Patricia; Speiser, David (1975) «Le De Magnete de Pierre de Maricourt. Traduction et Commentaire». Revue d’histoire des sciences 3: pp. 193-234. doi: 10.3406/rhs.1975.1153.
Rommevaux, Sabine (2014). «An Anonymous Reader of Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt in 14th-Century Oxford». Revue d’histoire des sciences 67, nº1: pp. 5-33. doi: 10.3917/rhs.671.0005
Schlund, Erhard (1911). «Petrus Peregrinus von Maricourt. Sein Leben und Seine Schriften. Ein Beitrag zur Roger Baco-Forshung». Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 4: pp. 436-455.
Sherwood Taylor, Frank (1945). «The experimental method in the Middle Ages». New Blackfriars 26, nº 301: pp. 133-142.
Smith, Peter J. (1968) «Pre-Gilbertian Conceptions of Terrestrial Magnetism». Technophysics 6: pp. 499-510.
Smith, Peter J. (1970). «Petrus Peregrinus’ Epistola: The Beginning of Experimental Studies of Magnetism in Europe». Atlas (Earth Science Reviews) 6: pp. A11-A18.
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina (2015). «Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt and the Medieval Magnetism». Mechanics, Materials Science &v Engineering 2: pp. 1-8.
Stewart, Easton (1970). Roger Bacon and his search for a universal science: a reconsideration of the life and work of Roger Bacon in the Light of his own stated purposes. Westport: Greenwood Press.
Taylor, Julie (2003). Muslims in Medieval Italy: The Colony at Lucera. Lanham: Lexington Books.
Thompson, S.P. (1905-1906). «Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt». Proceedings of the British Academy, (2): pp. 400-407.
Thomson, Ron B. (2005). «Peter Peregrinus». En Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine. An Encyclopedia, editado por Thomas Glick. Nueva York y Londres: Routledge.
Thorndike, Lynn (1946). «John of St. Amnd on the Magnet». Isis 36, nº 3-4: pp. 156-157. doi: 10.1086/347936.
Tomás de Aquino (1488). Opuscula: De occultis operibus naturae. Mediolani-Milán: Benignus et Johannes Antonius de Honate.
Zilsel, Edgar (2003). «The origins of William Gilbert’s Scientific Method». En The Social Origins of Modern Science, editado por D. Raven, W. Krohn, R. S. Cohen. Dordrecht: Springer, 2003. pp. 22-74. doi: 10.1007/978-94-011-4142-0_5.
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Minecan, A.M.C. 2017. Analysis and bilingual translation of epistle of Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt to Sygerus of Foncaucourt: Concerning the magnet (De magnete). Disputatio. 6, 7 (Dec. 2017), 277-307. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1490703.
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