Eifelheim - Michael Flynn [220]
of the intension and remission of forms and the mean speed theorem on page 85 is adapted from William of Heytesbury’s Regule solvendi sophismata, as quoted and discussed in Edward Grant’s The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages.
The Latin honorifics bestowed on various philosophers have been translated. So Peter Aureoli, the doctor facundus, is “Doctor Eloquent” and Durandus, the doctor modernis, is “Doctor Modern.” Will Ockham, who never completed his doctorate, was called the venerabilis inceptor, the “Old Inceptor.” Inceptor was a “degree” short of the doctorate that endowed ius ubique docendi, the right to teach everywhere.