Emmanuele Vimercati (ed.), The Reception of John Philoponus’ Natural Philosophy. Aristotelian Science from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance, Bloomsbury Academic, London – New York – Oxford – New Delhi – Sydney 2024 (Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition), XIV, 247 pp., ISBN: 9781350416277
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