Science and philosophy of nature in the Byzantine world and in the Renaissance: the Epitome physica by Nikephoros Blemmydes

Nikephoros Blemmydes（1197- 1269年后）的《物理学概论》（Epitome physics）是拜占庭时代和后拜占庭时代关于亚里士多德物理学和自然哲学的最重要的教科书之一。其令人印象深刻的影响从其编纂后的几年一直延伸到文艺复兴和土耳其统治时期。几个世纪以来，来自不同文化环境的学者以多种方式与《布莱米德斯纲要》文本互动。在15世纪和16世纪，直到奥格斯堡出版的《物理学概论》（1605年），《物理学概论》在文化和科学上产生了重大的影响，大量幸存的手稿（超过50份）证明了这一点。然而，由于缺乏对这部作品的全面研究和文艺复兴时期的接受，它的重要性仍然被低估了。为了全面概述《物理学概论》的文本和文化传统，其调查现在将扩展到新的主题，这些主题是在第一个资助期间对《物理学概论》的旧手稿进行的研究中出现的。（关于这些先前结果的专著目前正在准备出版。）此外，研究项目的最终成果将是希腊文本的第一个关键版本：它将基于对这项工作的来源以及手稿传统的完整调查，现在将扩展到15世纪末和16世纪的手稿。因此，《物理学概论》将首次向更多的读者开放，从而为拜占庭哲学和学术的进一步研究提供了可能。

The Epitome physica ("Compendium of physics") by Nikephoros Blemmydes (1197-after 1269) was one of the most important textbooks on Aristotelian Physics and Natural Philosophy during the Byzantine and post-Byzantine ages. Its impressive influence extends from the years after its compilation up to the Renaissance and the Turcocracy. For centuries, scholars belonging to different cultural environments have interacted with the text of Blemmydes' compendium in manifold ways. During the 15th and 16th century, and up to the publication of the editio princeps in Augsburg (1605), the Epitome physica had significant cultural and scientific influence, as attested by the great number of manuscripts still surviving (more than 50). However, due to the absence of a comprehensive study of this work and its Renaissance reception, its importance is still underestimated.In order to fully outline the textual and cultural tradition of the Epitome physica, its investigation will now be extended to new topics which emerged as essential from the research on the older manuscripts of the Epitome physica conducted during the first funding period. (A monograph of these previous results is currently being prepared for publication.) Furthermore, the final output of the research project will be the first critical edition of the Greek text: it will be based on the complete investigation of the sources of this work as well as of the manuscript tradition, now to be extended the the late 15th and 16th century manuscripts. As a result, the Epitome physica will for the first time be made accessible to a larger audience, and thus be available for further research on Byzantine philosophy and scholarship.