Bibliography

Primary Sources

The short opuscula, De motu, De motu locali, and De caelo, are found in MS Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College 499/268, ff. 204r-215r Swineshead Richard (c. 1345) Liber calculationum, is available in many manuscripts, not all ofwhich are complete. It was published in Padua c. 1477; Pavia 1498; Venice 1520; Salamanca 1520; and in other editions. Treatise XI on the rod falling through the earth, was published by Hoskin M, Molland AG (1966) Swineshead on falling bodies: an example of fourteenth-century physics. Br J Hist Sci 3:150-182. There is an outline in Latin of the main points of the Book of calculations, mostly but not entirely using Swineshead’s words in Edith Sylla (1970, 1991) The Oxford calculators and the mathematics of motion, 1320-1350. Physics and measurement by latitudes. Harvard PhD dissertation (repr. Garland Publishing, pp 648-714)

Secondary Sources

Clagett M (1950) Richard Swineshead and late medieval physics. Osiris 9:131-151

Murdoch JE, Sylla ED (1976) Swineshead (Swyneshed, Suicet, etc.), Richard. Dictionary of scientific biography, vol 13. Charles Scribner, New York, pp 184-213; Sylla E, supplement to this article (2008) Complete dictionary of scientific biography, vol 24, pp 562563; available online through Gale Virtual Reference Library Sylla ED (2008) Calculationes de motu locali in Richard Swineshead and Alvarus Thomas. In: Biard J, Rommevaux S (eds) Mathematiques et th(?orie du mouvement XIVe-XVIe siecles. Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, Villeneuve d’Ascq, pp 131-146