U n i V e r s a L i s

The leading figure in thirteenth century learning was Albertus Magnus, a Dominican friar who was finally canonized as a saint in 1931. Albertus, who has left us eight books on physics, six on psychology, eight on astronomy, twenty-six on zoology, seven on botany, five on minerals, one on geography, and three on life in general, was strongly influenced by Aristotle. Believing god acts through natural causes in natural phenomena, he conducted experiments in the field of animal behavior and thus became an important forerunner of modern experimental science. He was known to have had miraculous visions since childhood.

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