Albertus Magnus On Animals V1: A Medieval Summa Zoologica Revised Edition By : Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr.
Book Excerpt :
Albertus Magnus has long been recognized as one of the greatest minds of the Middle Ages; his contemporaries conferred upon him the title?Doctor Universalis. An epitaph at his tomb described him as prince among philosophers, greater than Plato, and hardly inferior to King Solomon in wisdom. In 1941, Pope Pius XII named Albertus Magnus patron saint of scientists. In his work?De animalibus,?Albert integrated the vast amount of information on nature that had come down to him in previous centuries: the exposition of Michael Scotus?s translation from the Arabic of Aristotle?s books on the natural world (Books 1?19), Albert?s own revisions to Aristotle?s teachings (Books 20?21), and a ?dictionary? of animals appropriated largely from the?De natura rerum?of Thomas of Cantimpr? (Books 22?26). Albert?s comprehensive treatise on living things was acknowledged as the reputable authority in biology for almost five hundred years. In this translated and annotated edition, Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr.
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