Luis Coronel

1480 (age 51)

Segovia, Spain

Coronel left Paris around 1517, after Francisco (later Domingo) de Soto’s arrival there; in 1520 he was in Flanders as preacher and adviser at the court of Charles V, and in 1521 or 1522 served with the Inquisition at Brussels. Here he came to know Erasmus, who regarded him as an ally and with whom he later corresponded. In 1527 he was secretary to Alfonso Monrique, archbishop of Seville; and in the same year, according to a letter of Juan Luis Vives to Erasmus, he was made bishop of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. At Paris, Coronel published his Tractatus [de formatione] syllogismorum in 1507 (or 1508) and his more important Physicae perscrutationes in 1511; the latter was based on his lectures at Montaigu and went through three additional known editions. Coronel’s physical doctrines were influenced by Jean Dullaert of Ghent and Alvaro Thomaz; and he cites approximately the same sources as they among the Oxford “calculators,” the Paris “terminists,” and various Italian writers. Jean Buridan, Richard Swineshead, Albert of Saxony, and Gregory of Rimini are mentioned by him with greatest frequency. Coronel’s “investigations” (166 folios in the Lyons edition of 1512) are located in the framework of Aristotle’s Physics, with long digressions on motion (thirty-five folios in book III) and on infinity (thirty-eight folios in book VIII). The tract on motion successively investigates local motion, alteration (including the intensity of forms), augmentation, and the velocities of motions; it contains little original apart from the thesis that impetus is not really distinct from local motion. Coronel treats infinity mainly in relation to God’s power, holding that God can produce a syncategorematic, but not a categorematic, infinity; in this he differs from John Major and Juan de Celaya.

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Background

Coronel was born in the second half of the 15th century, in Segovia, Spain. He had a brother named Antonio.

Education

Coronel received his early education at Salamanca and then went, around 1500, to the Collège de Montaigu at the University of Paris, where he was taught by John Major. He was at the Sorbonne in 1504 as a guest and in 1509 as a fellow. Ordained a priest in 1512, he received the licentiate in theology on 26 January 1514 and the doctorate on 29 May 1514.

$Education period of Luis Coronel in Coll\u00E8ge de Montaigu$

Education period of Luis Coronel in Sorbonne University

Career

Coronel left Paris around 1517, after Francisco (later Domingo) de Soto’s arrival there; in 1520 he was in Flanders as preacher and adviser at the court of Charles V, and in 1521 or 1522 served with the Inquisition at Brussels. Here he came to know Erasmus, who regarded him as an ally and with whom he later corresponded. In 1527 he was secretary to Alfonso Monrique, archbishop of Seville; and in the same year, according to a letter of Juan Luis Vives to Erasmus, he was made bishop of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.

At Paris, Coronel published his Tractatus [de formatione] syllogismorum in 1507 (or 1508) and his more important Physicae perscrutationes in 1511; the latter was based on his lectures at Montaigu and went through three additional known editions. Coronel’s physical doctrines were influenced by Jean Dullaert of Ghent and Alvaro Thomaz; and he cites approximately the same sources as they among the Oxford “calculators,” the Paris “terminists,” and various Italian writers. Jean Buridan, Richard Swineshead, Albert of Saxony, and Gregory of Rimini are mentioned by him with greatest frequency.

Coronel’s “investigations” (166 folios in the Lyons edition of 1512) are located in the framework of Aristotle’s Physics, with long digressions on motion (thirty-five folios in book III) and on infinity (thirty-eight folios in book VIII). The tract on motion successively investigates local motion, alteration (including the intensity of forms), augmentation, and the velocities of motions; it contains little original apart from the thesis that impetus is not really distinct from local motion. Coronel treats infinity mainly in relation to God’s power, holding that God can produce a syncategorematic, but not a categorematic, infinity; in this he differs from John Major and Juan de Celaya.

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Coronel was noted as a theologian, publishing many works on this topic. He also published works on logic, most known being Physicae perscrutationes.

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Brother:: Antonio Coronel

References

Dictionary of Scientific Biography Volume 3
1971

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1500 - 1504

1509 - May 29, 1514

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1527

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