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One of Aristotle's four causes, referring to the primary source of change or rest; in natural philosophy, the agent that brings something into being.
Connections
Other entities that appear in the same books as Efficient Cause.
Appears in 445 Books
Giordano Bruno
Iamblichus | Proclus | Porphyry
Kepler, Johannes
Giordano Bruno
René Descartes
René Descartes
Ralph Cudworth
Pietro d'Abano
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni
Plato | Taylor, Thomas (trans.)
Iamblichus (trans. Marsilio Ficino)
Pseudo-Albertus Magnus
Bacon, Francis
Hermes Trismegistus
Various (Greek Hermetic texts)
Albertus Magnus
Athanasius Kircher
Proclus (ed. Ernst Diehl)
Plato (ed. R.D. Archer-Hind)
Vondel, Joost van den
Zimmermann, Johann Jacob
Pietro Pomponazzi
Zepeda, Alonso de
René Descartes
Robert Fludd
Abrabanel, Jehuda
Abrabanel, Jehuda
Lull, Ramón
Morestel, Pierre
Vondel, Joost van den
Brightman, Thomas
Poiret, Pierre
Poiret, Pierre
Fludd, Robert
Pietro Pomponazzi
Pietro Pomponazzi
Asclepius of Tralles
Albertus Magnus
Lazarus Zetzner (ed.)
Lazarus Zetzner (ed.)
Plotinus | Ficino, Marsilio (trans.)
Bacon, Roger
Bacon, Roger
Roger Bacon; annotations by John Dee
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni
Ren Descartes
Nemesius of Emesa; Nicasius Ellebodius (trans.)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Reuchlin, Johannes
Hermes Trismegistus; Ficino, Marsilio (translator)
Aristotle; Argyropoulos, Johannes (trans.)
Aristotle; Argyropoulos, Johannes (trans.)
Andrea Cesalpino
Crocius, Paul
Andrea Cesalpino
Albumasar
George of Trebizond
George of Trebizond
Aristotle; Johannes Argyropoulos
Aristotle; Johannes Argyropoulos
Niccolò Leoniceno (translator); Galen
Ermolao Barbaro
Ermolao Barbaro
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Johann Jakob Brucker
Johann Jakob Brucker
Aristotle; Theophrastus; Julius Caesar Scaliger
Cicero; Boethius; Macrobius; Seneca
Pierre Gassendi
Andrea Cesalpino
Gabriele Falloppio
Marin Mersenne
Pierre Poiret
Jean Calvin (printed by Robert Estienne)
Johannes de Raei
Hermes Trismegistus; Apuleius; Marsilio Ficino
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Libavius, Andreas
Hermes Trismegistus; Marsilio Ficino
Menasseh ben Israel
Menasseh ben Israel
Cardinal Bessarion
John Philoponus
John Philoponus
Galen; Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.)
Sadeel, A. [Chandieu, Antoine de]
Pseudo-Aristotle; Al-Ghazali; Boethius
Nemesius of Emesa; ed. C.F. Matthaei
Christian Wolff
Bacon, Francis
John Philoponus
Marsilio Ficino
Jean Fernel
Aristotle; Theodore Gaza
George Gemistos Plethon; Cardinal Bessarion
Albertus Magnus (ed. Hermann Stadler)
Roger Bacon (trans. Robert Belle Burke)
Jacopo Zabarella
Maimon, Moses ben
Thomas Linacre (printed by Henri I Estienne)
Jacopo Zabarella
Jacopo Zabarella
Aristotle (Oxford trans. ed. Ross & Smith)
Joannes Stobaeus (ed. Wilhelm Canter)
Joannes Stobaeus (ed. Wilhelm Canter)
Pierre Gassendi
Aristotle (trans. William Alexander Hammond)
Francesco Patrizi
Petrus Bonus
Pierre Gassendi
Bacon, Roger
Jacopo Zabarella
Isaac Beeckman
Philip Lansberge
Aristoteles, v384-v322
Giovanni Battista Odierna
Cardinal Bessarion
Lucius Annaeus Seneca / Erasmus (ed.)
Hermes, Trismegistus, ca. 2./4. Jh.
Hermes, Trismegistus, ca. 2./4. Jh.
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco
Lullus, Raimundus
Pierre Gassendi
Tylkowski, Wojciech
Pierre Gassendi
Lorenzo Valla
Bacon, Roger
Bacon, Roger
Girolamo Fracastoro
Bacon, Roger
Sextus Empiricus
Bacon, Roger
Bacon, Roger
John Philoponus
Albumasar (Abu Mashar)
Émile Durkheim
Dante Alighieri; Boethius
Friedrich Dieterici
Adelard of Bath
Robert G. Ingersoll
Handel, Ignatius; Reibelt, Johann Joseph Adam
Gautama (trans. Ganganatha Jha)
Franz Brentano
John Philoponus
Marin Cureau de la Chambre
John Pordage
Boethius
Giordano Bruno
Jan Baptist van Helmont
Henri Bergson
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Abrabanel, Jehuda
Pierre Duhem
Nicephorus Blemmydes
Laurent Ventura; Petrus Bonus Ferrariensis
Porphyry; Proclus; Ammonius
Ficino, Marsilio (1433-1499)
Ficino, Marsilio (1433-1499)
Averroes (Ibn Rushd); Simon van den Bergh (trans.)
Averroes (Ibn Rushd); Simon van den Bergh (trans.)
Albertus Magnus
Robert Grosseteste; Ludwig Baur (ed.)
Leone Ebreo (Judah Abravanel)
Olympiodorus; Aristotle
John Philoponus
Juncker, Christian
Aristotle
Freitag, Johann
John Philoponus
Freitag, Johann
René Descartes
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Pierre Duhem
Aristotle; Immanuel Bekker
Duns Scotus
John Philoponus
John Philoponus
Pierre Duhem
Benedetto Varchi
Boot, Arnold, 1606-1653; Boot, Gerhard
Bacon, Francis
Girolamo Cardano
William Harvey
Aristotle
Bacon, Francis
Michael Maier
Andreas Libavius
Proclus Diadochus
Proclus Diadochus
Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
Andrea Cesalpino
Andrea Cesalpino
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Libavius, Andreas
Libavius, Andreas
Francesco Patrizi
Isaac Preston Cory
Christian Wolff
Christian Wolff
Benedictus de Spinoza
Hermes Trismegistus
Hermes Trismegistus
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Adam Smith
Simplicius; Hermann Diels (ed.)
Simplicius; Hermann Diels (ed.)
Ocellus Lucanus; Carlo Emanuele Vizzani (ed.)
Ocellus Lucanus; Carlo Emanuele Vizzani (ed.)
John Philoponus; ed. Michael Hayduck
Buṭrus bin Buṭrus bin Isḥaq al-Tūlāti of Aleppo (بطرس بن بطرس ابن اسحق التولاتي واعظ مدينة حلب), likely the same as Tūlāwī, Buṭrus, 1657-1745
Buṭrus bin Buṭrus bin Isḥaq al-Tūlāti of Aleppo (بطرس بن بطرس ابن اسحق التولاتي واعظ مدينة حلب), likely the same as Tūlāwī, Buṭrus, 1657-1745
Adi Shankaracharya
Adi Shankaracharya
Nikephoros Blemmydes
Agricola, Georg
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; Gianfrancesco Pico
Descartes, René
Plato|Plutarchus
Aevolus, Caesar
Ruland sr., Martin
Mersenne, Marin
Malebranche, Nicolas
Claves, Gaston de
Oetinger, Friedrich Christoph|Bilhuber, Johann Christoph
Oetinger, Friedrich Christoph|Bilhuber, Johann Christoph
Dionysius Areopagita|Eck, Johann
Aubert, Jacques
Dionysius Areopagita
Zimmermann, Johann Jacob
Menasseh ben Israel
Mornay, Philippe de
Postel, Guillaume
Shalom, Abraham ben Isaac
Descartes, René
Lavinheta, Bernardus de
Lavinheta, Bernardus de
Buddeus, Johannes Franciscus
Bessarion, Johannes|Aristotle|Theophrastus
Aldrovandi, Ulisse
Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Aristotle
Maximus of Tyre
Raynaud, Théophile
Raynaud, Théophile
Aristotle; Argyropoulos, Johannes (trans.)
Aristotle; Argyropoulos, Johannes (trans.)
Dionysius Areopagita
Vossius, Gerardus Johannes
Benedetto Varchi
Albertus Magnus
Mornay, Philippe de
Erastus, Thomas
Christian Wolff
Bacon, Francis
Aristotle; Johannes Argyropoulos
Duns Scotus
George of Trebizond
George of Trebizond
Dionysius Areopagita|Eck, Johann
Aevolus, Caesar
Mornay, Philippe de
Descartes, René
René Descartes
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; Gianfrancesco Pico
Bacon, Francis
Bessarion, Johannes|Aristotle|Theophrastus
Agricola, Georg
Pierre Duhem
Pierre Duhem
Zimmermann, Johann Jacob
Aristotle; Argyropoulos, Johannes (trans.)
Robert Grosseteste; Ludwig Baur (ed.)
Robert Grosseteste; Ludwig Baur (ed.)
Mornay, Philippe de
Albertus Magnus
Cassiodorus; Garetius, Joannes
Johann Jakob Brucker
Johann Jakob Brucker
Malebranche, Nicolas
Jacopo Zabarella
Christian Wolff
Jacopo Zabarella
Jacopo Zabarella
Pierre Duhem
Pierre Duhem
Christian Wolff
Christian Wolff
John Philoponus
Francesco Patrizi
John Philoponus
Cornelius Gemma
Cornelius Gemma
John Philoponus
Thomas Linacre (printed by Henri I Estienne)
John Philoponus
John Philoponus
Pierre Duhem
Pierre Duhem
Marin Cureau de la Chambre
Marin Cureau de la Chambre
Ermolao Barbaro
Galen; Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Jan Baptist van Helmont
Marsilio Ficino
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Daniel Sennert
George of Trebizond
George Gemistos Plethon; Cardinal Bessarion
Lorenzo Valla
Gerardus Johannes Vossius
Aquinas, Thomas; Planudes, Maximus
Marin Mersenne
Lorenzo de' Medici
George Pachymeres
Hayck, Thaddaeus Hagecius von
Grynaeus, Johann Jakob
Valerius, Cornelius
Huber, Samuel
Brucker, Jacob