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 Commentary on the Physics
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Commentary on the Physics.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Averroes.
Evidence ledger
- Aquinas's early engagement with Aristotelian natural philosophy in the Sentences commentary is informed by Averroes's Commentary on the Physics, part of the standard apparatus for reading Aristotle in his scholastic training.