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Woodcut, 1496. Title page with various symbols scale, compass, circle with the sun at the zenith and the moon at the nadir, woman standing within the circle with a sphere superimposed over her torso, urn, ruler, square, and the numbers 1-10. Appears in Magnus' Philosophia pauperium, sive Philosophia naturalis. Albertus Magnus (1193/1206-1280) was a Dominican friar and bishop who believed in the peaceful coexistence of science and religion. Albertus was the first to comment on all of the writings of Aristotle, making them accessible for wider academic debate. He also studied and commented on the teachings of Muslim academics, notably Avicenna and Averroes. Albertus Magnus was the first scholar to apply Aristotle's philosophy to Christian thought. He was ahead of his time in his attitude towards science. He not only studied science from books, but observed and experimented with nature and he took from Aristotle the view that scientific method had to be appropriate to the objects of the s...