Albertus Magnus and the Sciences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Albertus Magnus and the Sciences write by James A. Weisheipl. This book was released on 1980. Albertus Magnus and the Sciences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Speculum Astronomiae and Its Enigma
The Speculum Astronomiae and Its Enigma - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Speculum Astronomiae and Its Enigma write by P. Zambelli. This book was released on 2013-12-21. The Speculum Astronomiae and Its Enigma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The attribution of the Speculum Astronomiae to Albertus Magnus became a controversial issue only recently, when the great neo-Thomist historian Pierre Mandonnet suggested -- without any antecedents -- that the author was Roger Bacon rather than Albert. Mandonnet's theses were refuted by Lynn Thorndike and have since then been the subject of widespread discussion. The present historiographical case-study considers this debate in the light of an analysis of texts by Albert himself, as well as other important authors, such as Bacon, Bonaventura, Thomas Aquinas, Witelo, Campanus of Novara, and others, which shows how widespread the general concept of the influence of the stars and other astrological ideas to be found in the Speculum were. Most of the scientific ideas of the Middle Ages were based on principles derived from the notion of celestial influence and its consequences. The Speculum drew the fundamental outlines of this discipline into a theoretical and bibliographical introduction -- no small achievement -- and was consequently greeted with great interest and used as a standard reference book for many centuries. Set against the background of discussions taking place in the 1260s, within the Dominican Order as well as in the Faculties of Arts, Zambelli removes all doubt that the Speculum was written by Albert, possibly with some collaboration.
The Book Of Minerals
The Book Of Minerals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book Of Minerals write by Albertus Magnus. This book was released on 1967-01-01. The Book Of Minerals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature
Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature write by Irven M. Resnick. This book was released on 2022-08-04. Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive English-language biography of Albert the Great in a century. As well as being an important medieval theologian, Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great) also made significant contributions to the study of astronomy, geography, and natural philosophy, and his studies of the natural world led Pope Pius XII to declare Albert the patron saint of the natural sciences. Dante Alighieri acknowledged a substantial debt to Albert’s work, and in the Divine Comedy placed him equal with his celebrated student and brother Dominican, Thomas Aquinas. In this book, the first full, scholarly biography in English for nearly a century, Irven M. Resnick and Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr. narrate Albert’s key contributions to natural philosophy and the history of science, while also revealing the insights into medieval life and customs that his writings provide.
Women's Secrets
Women's Secrets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women's Secrets write by Helen Rodnite Lemay. This book was released on 1992-10-14. Women's Secrets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Womens Secrets provides the first modern translation of the notorious treatise De secretis mulierum, popular throughout the late middle ages and into modern times. The Secrets deals with human reproduction and was written to instruct celibate medieval monks on the facts of life and some of the ways of the universe. However, the book had a much more far-reaching influence. Lemay shows how its message that women were evil, lascivious creatures built on the misogyny of the works Aristotelian sources and laid the groundwork for serious persecution of women. Both the content of the treatise and the reputation of its author (erroneously believed to be Albertus Magnus) inspired a few medieval scholars to compose lengthy commentaries on the text, substantial selections from which are included, providing further evidence of how medieval men interpreted science and viewed the female body.
