Giles of Rome · thesis 6.11

Thesis 6.11

Latin

Dato uacuo, si aliquid in eo moueatur, in instanti mouebitur.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12790

English

Supposing a vacuum, anything moved within it would be moved instantaneously.

Opposed to Aquinas, who held that a body in a vacuum would move at a finite speed toward its natural place (Farmer's note, farmer1998:12838). Sense checked against farmer1998:12831.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:12831; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Giles of Rome (section 6 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Discussed in

• Amos Edelheit, A Philosopher at the Crossroads: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Scholastic Philosophy (2022)

Mention records in the corpus: 6 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 2.37 Grauia et leuia a nullo alio motore mouentur quam uel a generante uel a remouente prohibens.