BURLEIGH (Burley, Burleaus), Walter. - English Scholastic. The data concerning his life are uncertain and conflicting. In 1275 he is thought to have been a disciple of Scotus at Oxford. He taught at Paris, Oxford (F. Überweg) and Toulouse (M. Grabmann). He came to Italy twice, in 1327 and 1330, and was tutor to Edward III. He died after 1343 (E. Denife). Giovanni da S. Antonio, among others, calls him a Franciscan, Alonso de Vargas with various writers makes him an Augustinian, while Denife-Chatelain describe him as a canon at Évreux in 1342. B. opposed the nominalism of Ockham and was called “doctor planus et perspicuus.”
Published works: *De vitiis et moribus philosophorum* (Cologne 1472; critical ed. Tübingen 1886), an interesting attempt at a history of philosophy from Thales to Seneca, printed and translated many times; *Comment. in Ethicam Aristotelis* (Venice 1481); *Super artem veterem Porphyrii et Aristotelis expositio* (ibid. 1481); *De intentione et remissione formarum* (ibid. 1496); *Scriptum G. Burlei super libros Analyt. posteriorum* (ibid. 1497); *De materia et forma* (Oxford 1500); *Summa totius logicae* (Venice 1508), etc. Among his unpublished works are known: *De fluxu et refluxu maris augli*, once attributed to Bacon; *De divisione scientiarum*; *De substantia orbis*, etc.