Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Aquinas's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Aquinas and De Motu Animalium
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to De Motu Animalium.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Aristotle.
Evidence ledger
- Citation-derived from Aquinas's own ingested Latin text (pattern=aquinas-citation-23202-216-253): Aristotle + work cue 'De causa motus': clear authority+work, proposing new Work 'De Motu Animalium'; mediated per translation channel; argumentative position unmarked in window