De Soto Domingo - De Soto Domingo Commentariorum fratris Dominici Soto Segobiensis, theologi, ordinis Praedicatorum - - 1569

De Soto, Domingo : Commentariorum fratris Dominici Soto Segobiensis, theologi, ordinis Praedicatorum ...
Venetiis, 1569. [48], 772, [10] p. Tomus secundus
Very nice and clean condition. Rare book. 220x18 mm.
In Segovia, city of the Aqueduct, whose economy had taken off at the end of the 15th century, within a family of “old Christians” and modest, Domingo de Soto was born, whose name when he was baptized was Francisco (which he later changed).
He was always faithful to the norms of justice, law and charity; In the long time that he taught as a teacher, his marked influence was noted both from the Chair and from his written work. He developed multiple activities because he had a great capacity for work, preparation, intelligence, and was concerned about knowledge and ethics.

Within the European historical-cultural context of the 16th century, the Segovian acquired a unique relevance; He was one of the most outstanding people of the University of Salamanca and the School of Salamanca, a distinguished representative of the Salamanca polygraphists, one of the greatest figures of Segovia and Spain, and of universal projection. His many merits have been praised with the highest praise.

Dominican religious, theologian, jurist and university professor of Theology and Philosophy, author of a rich literary production. This was Domingo de Soto, one of the most important Spanish thinkers of the great 16th century, who lived in imperial Spain, within the framework of our Golden Age and who intervened in several of the important issues raised in those years.
Soto in his writings being the first to determine that a body in free fall suffers a uniform acceleration with respect to time; This conception of the mass was very novel in its time; Soto already related two aspects of Physics: uniformly accelerated movement and the decay of bass, fundamental for understanding the laws of nature. It could be located in the “Logical Soto”, also in the “Scientific Soto”. Soto was certainly not a physicist of the new science, however it is fair to point him out as an intermediate point between tradition and Galileo's ideas.

The exhaustive studies of P. Duhem, A. Koyré and A. Wallace were fundamental, who studied Soto's writings on Physics and his contribution to the development of modern science; “Some of Soto's theories on the movement of bodies seem to have served as a springboard for Galileo to develop his studies on ballistics and the fall of bass. It is the Italian physicist who directly mentions Soto's work and who recognizes his debt to him” (Jiménez Castaño).
The Segovian Dominican friar was well aware of the social problems of his time and was frequently involved. He served as Prior (1540-1542) of the convent of San Esteban. The 40s and 50s were years of poor harvests and famine, giving rise to social conflicts and the resulting pauperism, in response to which Soto collaborated to solve the serious problem not only of the students (at a certain point when the University had run out of wheat Soto was sent to Toledo to negotiate with his friend and Dominican Cardinal Siliceo about the shipment of wheat, and he succeeded), in addition, he did not stop making efforts to help the indigent; even (according to Sastre Varas) “Soto invents what today we could call the food bank: two tables are set up in the church of San Esteban, one for women and the other for men, and those in charge of the parishes go there to look for food, and when the poor are in need, to be able to remedy the deficiency they have in food. And even more: Soto, with the magistrate, after the sermons of San Esteban goes out to the houses of the rich to ask for alms and food for the poor.