William of Heytesbury, or William Heytesbury, or William de Heytisbury, called in Latin ** Guglielmus Hentisberus** or Tisberus (c. 1313 – 1372/1373), was an English philosopher and logician, best known as one of the Oxford Calculators of Merton College, Oxford, where he was a fellow.

Life

Heytesbury had become a fellow of Merton by 1330. In his work he applied logical techniques to the problems of divisibility, the continuum, and kinematics. His magnum opus was the Regulae solvendi sophismata (Rules for Solving Sophisms), written about 1335. He was Chancellor of the University of Oxford for the year 1371 to 1372.

Works