The Forgotten Giants

1. Introduction (Elżbieta Jung, Joanna Papiernik, Bartosz Żukowski).- 2. Atomistic Explanations of Observable Phenomena: Water Evaporation as a Key to an Overlooked Revolution in Natural Philosophy (Chiara Militello).- 3. A World without Violence? Heterodox Theories of Natural Motion in the Fourteenth Century (Sylvain Roudaut).- 4. Higgs Boson Blues. Revisiting Nicholas of Autrecourt’s Atomism (Gustavo Fernandez Walker).- 5. Commitment Issues? Marsilius of Inghen, Nominalism and the Semantics of Necessarily Empty Terms in the Late-fourteenth Century (Graziana S. Ciola).- 6. Pre-Copernican Astrology at Cracow, 1450–1500: A Still Unfolding Revolution in our Understanding of Copernicus (André Goddu).- 7. Early Seventeenth-Century Atomists on Heat and Fire (Antonio Clericuzio).- 8. Looking for an Authority: The Failed Revival of Anaxagoras’s Fiery Aether in the Early Modern Period (Eva Del Soldato).- 9. Adam Chałupczyński (1822–1887): A Polish Pioneer in Evolutionary Thought (Michał J. Wagner).- 10. Wittgenstein’s Critique of Science and Technology (Moritz René Pretzsch).- 11. Maria Ossowska and the Science of Morality: A Forgotten Giant of Experimental Moral Philosophy? (Joseph Ulatowski).- 12. Relationalism about Space and Time: Revisiting an Unfinished Revolution (Antonio Vassallo).- Index of Names.