Albertus Magnus Quotes
Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is not apparent, since vapor no more rises in a land where a pauper lives than where a rich man resides, whether he be king or someone else. Furthermore, it is evident that a comet has a natural cause not dependent on anything else; so it seems that it has no relation to someone's death or to war.
The politicians, theologians, and common people of the day believed that if a comet were sighted, death of important people (magnates) or war was sure to follow. With all the deaths and wars, they tended to follow any event, but Albertus Magnus was one of the few men who dared to challenge the conventional wisdom of the Church, the philosophers, and the politicians of the day. He was one of the theologians of history who were also good scientists and this quotations illustrates that not all clerics and theologians of the era were of a like mind despite the authoritarianism of the church.
Albertus Magnus, 1206-1280, German scientist, philosopher, and theologian, Roman Catholic Saint, De Cometi
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Also known as Ferdinand II or Aragon. We have provided an extensive quotation from the letter. In retrospect, it is incredulous today that Ferdinand would make such demands or even would believe that the Indians would understand the terms or their consequences, the threats. Even the promises that are made were ignored because of the Indian’s “intransigence.”
The 1712 edition was the German translation of the original Latin text which was completed and published at the end of the 17th century.
The same polarization is still with us.
Even in free America, Allen had a very difficult time getting this work printed because it was so controversial culturally.
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Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims.
Albertus Magnus, also known as Saint Albert the Great or Albert of Cologne, was a German Catholic Dominican friar, philosopher and bishop. Later canonised as a Catholic saint, he was known during his lifetime as Doctor universalis and Doctor expertus and, late in his life, the sobriquet Magnus was appended to his name. Scholars such as James A. Weisheipl and Joachim R. Söder have referred to him as the greatest German philosopher and theologian of the Middle Ages. The Catholic Church distinguishes him as one of the 36 Doctors of the Church.
