Note 395 — Chapter IV · THE SOURCES FOR THE PERIOD 1100–1250 A. D.
Reading edition
This work, written some time before 1145—for at about this date William, in a treatise called Dragmaticon philosophiae, retracted certain heretical doctrines which he had expressed in it—has been falsely attributed to Bede, to William of Hirschau, and to Honorius of Autun (see Poole, Illustrations, 1920, pp. 338–352, and Duhem, Système, vol. iii, 1915, pp. 90–93) and printed among the works of each of these. The text attributed to William of Hirschau was printed by Henricus Petrus at Basel in 1531 under the title Philosophicarum et astronomicarum institutionum libri tres; that attributed to Bede, under the title Περὶ διδαξέων sive elementorum philosophiae libri IV, in Migne, Pat. lat., vol. xc, cols. 1127–1182; and that attributed to Honorius, under the title De philosophia mundi, in Migne, op. cit., vol. clxxii, cols. 39–102.
On William of Conches as a scientist see especially Werner, Kosm. Wilhelm von Conches, 1873.