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Remembering a Medieval Polymath Who Paved the Way for the Renaissance

Wellcomeimages | CC BY-NC 2.0 Albert the Great: Remembering a Medieval Polymath Who Paved the Way for the Renaissance and Holistic Thinking By David Strunk Sign up for our monthly newsletter! "The aim of natural science is not simply to accept the statements of others, but to investigate the causes that are at work in...

In America, the Dust Bowl, exacerbated by poor agricultural practices and climate change, wreaked havoc across the Great Plains, and scientists began to recognize the detrimental warming effects of carbon emissions resulting from the Industrial Revolution. His extensive scholarly works span many scientific disciplines, including astronomy, geography, physics, chemistry, mechanics, mineralogy, zoology, botany, anthropology, physiology, and medicine. Moreover, revolutionary to his time, Albertus’s defense of reason in understanding the natural world paved the way for his student, Thomas Aquinas, and other Scholastics, who further developed these ideas.

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