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    Supports→Giles of Rome's notion of place is dual, not purely relational or purely material, but combines both a quantitative-relational notion (formal place as distance) and a material notion (place as the limit of the containing body).

    Giles of Rome distinguishes between material place (the limit of the containing body) and formal place (distance from the fixed points of the universe).

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    Studies concerning Giles’ natural philosophy focused mainly on his treatment of some pivotal concepts of Aristotle’s Physics. Cecilia Trifogli opened new perspectives in this field, devoting her attention to the notions of place and motion (especially in the void, see Trifogli 1992), underlining that “Giles’ emphasis on the role of place in the description of motion seems to lead to a quantitative and relational notion of place. Giles, however, does not completely substitute the Aristotelian no

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