1. The worst offender I have found is Frank B. Dilley, ‘Misunderstanding the Cosmological Argument of St. Thomas’, New Scholasticism 50 (1976): 96–107. The title of Dilley’s article might well describe his own exposition of Aquinas’s first three ways.
2. For a chronological approach see Jules A. Baisnée, ‘St. Thomas Aquinas’s Proofs of the Existence of God Presented in their Chronological Order’, in Philosophical Studies in Honor of the Very Reverend Ignatius Smith, O.P. (Westminster, M. D.: Newman Press, 1952), pp. 29–64.
3. Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae la. 2. 3. Quotations are from Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, 60 vols. (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode; New York; McGraw-Hill Book Co. for Blackfriars, 1964).
4. On this point see R. L. Patterson, The Conception of God in the Philosophy of Aquinas (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1933), pp. 363–4;
5. Frederick C. Copleston, A History of Philosophy, vol. 2: Mediaeval Philosophy: Augustine to Scoutus (London: Burns, Oates, and Washbourne, 1950), pp. 342–3;