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Albertus Magnus

Geburtstag: 1206
Todesdatum: 15. November 1280

Albertus Magnus oder Albert von Lauingen war ein deutscher Gelehrter und Bischof, der wegbereitend für den christlichen Aristotelismus des hohen Mittelalters war. Er lehrte in Köln und Paris. Im Jahr 1622 wurde er selig- und am 16. Dezember 1931 von Papst Pius XI. heiliggesprochen und zum Kirchenlehrer erklärt. Wikipedia

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„Aufgabe der Naturwissenschaft ist es nicht, alles, was berichtet wird, einfach hinzunehmen. Sie hat vielmehr die Ursachen im Naturgeschehen zu ergründen.“

— Albertus Magnus

Übersetzung zitiert nach: Roland Popp und Birgit Steib, Albertus Magnus - der große Neugierige, 01.11.2003, spectrum.de http://www.spektrum.de/magazin/albertus-magnus-der-grosse-neugierige/830312
Original lat.: "Scientiae enim naturalis non est simpliciter narrata accipere, sed in rebus naturalibus inquirere causas." - Mineralium, Liber II: Qui est de lapidibus pretiosis, Tractatus 2: De Lapidibus pretiosis et eorum virtutibus, Caput I: De lapidibus pretiosis incipientibus ab A, zitiert nach D. Alberti Magni, Opera omnia, Hrsg. Augusti Borgnet, Volumen Quiintum, Paris 1890, S. 30, dritter Satz, (PDF: 79,8MB) http://albertusmagnus.uwaterloo.ca/PDFs/Borgnet-volumen%2005.pdf

„Allein Beobachtung gibt nämlich derartigen Dingen Gewissheit.“

— Albertus Magnus

De vegetabilibus et plantis, Liber sextus: De speciebus quarumdam plantarum, Tractatus 1: De Arboribus, Caput I: De ABIETE et speciebus ejus, zitiert nach D. Alberti Magni, Opera omnia, Hrsg. Augusti Borgnet, Volumen Deciumum: Parva Naturalia, Paris 1891, S. 160, zweiter Satz, (PDF: 81,1MB) http://albertusmagnus.uwaterloo.ca/PDFs/Borgnet-volumen%2010.pdf
Original lat.: "de particularibus enim etiam philosophia esse non poteriit. [...] Experimentum enim solum certificat in talibus, eo quod tam de particularibus naturis simile haberi non potest."

„Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.“

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Attributed to Albertus Magnus in: Albertus Magnus; cited in: Morris Bishop (1968) The Middle Ages. p. 252.

„If the excrement of an elephant should be smeared on skin in which lice appear and left until it dries upon the skin, the lice will not remain on it but will depart immediately. If the fat of an elephant is smeared with it, it is said to cure the pain of one who suffers a headache; it is even said that if an ounce of elephant bone is drunk with ten ounces of wild mountain mint from something which a leper first touched, it does the most for a headache.“

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Twenty-Six Books on Animals [De animalibus libri XXVI]; cited in: Plinio Prioreschi (1996) A History of Medicine: Medieval Medicine. p. 94.

„Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.“

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Attributed to Albertus Magnus in: R.C. Bless (1996) Discovering the cosmos. p. 686.

„This dumb ox will fill the world with his bellowing.“

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Attributed to Albertus Magnus in: Anne Jackson Fremantle (1962) The Great Ages of Western Philosophy : The Age of Belief : The Medieval Philosophers
Albertus Magnus, in response to other of his students calling Thomas Aquinas a "dumb ox" because of his quietude.

„The metals are all essentially identical; they differ only in form. Now, the form brings out accidental causes, which the experimenter must try to discover and remove, as far as possible. Accidental causes impede the regular union of sulphur and mercury; for every metal is a combination of sulphur and mercury. A diseased womb may give birth to a weakly, leprous child, although the seed was good; the same is true of the metals which are generated in the bowels of the earth, which is a womb for them; any cause whatever, or local trouble, may produce an imperfect metal. When pure sulphur comes in contact with pure mercury, after more or less time, and by the permanent action of nature, gold is produced.“

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As quoted by Francis Preston Venable, A Short History of Chemistry (1894) p. 28. https://books.google.com/books?id=fN9YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA28