Medieval · c. 1300–1361
Who influenced Jean Buridan?
Influences and legacy
Nominalist rector of Paris whose impetus theory broke with Aristotle's physics.
Jean Buridan was influenced by William of Ockham, and went on to influence Nicole Oresme. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Jean Buridan?
Jean Buridan taught in the arts faculty of the University of Paris all his career, focusing on logic and on Aristotle. He developed the concept of impetus, the first step towards the modern idea of inertia, and is said to have sown the seeds of the Copernican revolution.
His name is best known from the thought experiment of Buridan's ass, though it does not appear in his surviving writings.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Jean Buridan?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- William of Ockham c. 1287–1347
Who did Jean Buridan influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Jean Buridan.
- Nicole Oresme c. 1320–1382
The line of teachers behind Jean Buridan
The longest documented line of influence ending at Jean Buridan runs 16 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Jean Buridan
Indirect influences
- Through William of Ockham: Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus
Contemporaries of Jean Buridan
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Jean Buridan, with no direct line between them.
- Gersonides 1288–1344
Jean Buridan by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 49
- Thinkers downstream
- 1
- Wikipedia languages
- 44 — #44 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Schools and lineages
Questions about Jean Buridan
- Who influenced Jean Buridan?
- William of Ockham.
- Who did Jean Buridan influence?
- Nicole Oresme.
- When did Jean Buridan live?
- c. 1300–1361. The map files Jean Buridan under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Jean Buridan card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Jean Buridan in 44 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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