Commentaries of the College of Coimbra on the Two Books on Generation and Corruption - Volume VI - Manuel de Góis

Commentaries of the College of Coimbra on Aristotle’s Two Books on Generation and Corruption, Volume VI by Manuel de Góis is a scholastic Aristotelian commentary that examines Aristotle’s De Generatione et Corruptione within the Coimbra Jesuit tradition. It belongs to the broader Conimbricenses series, which presents Aristotelian natural philosophy in a structured scholastic format for academic study.

A central concern of the volume is the nature of substantial change in the physical world. Góis analyzes Aristotle’s account of generation and corruption, explaining how substances come into being and pass away through the interplay of matter, form, and natural causes.

The work also addresses related topics such as elemental composition, transformation in natural bodies, and the principles underlying physical change, while engaging scholastic debates on Aristotelian physics. Overall, it provides a systematic exposition of change and transformation within the framework of late Scholastic natural philosophy.