NICOLAUS See also:

• NICOLAUS TAURELLUS (1547-1606)

TAURELLUS (1547-1606)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German philosopher and theologian, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Mompelgard . He read See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology at See also:

• TUBINGEN

Tubingen and See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine at See also:

• BASEL (Fr. Bale)
• BASEL (Fr. Belle, but Basle is a wholly erroneous form; Ital. Basilea)
• BASEL, CONFESSION OF
• BASEL, COUNCIL OF

Basel, where he lectured on See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science . He subsequently became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of medicine at See also:

• ALTDORF

Altdorf, where he died in 1606 . He attacked the dominant Aristotelianism of the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, and endeavoured to construct a See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy which should harmonize faith and knowledge, and See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge over the chasm made by the first See also:

• RENAISSANCE, THE

Renaissance writers who followed Pomponazzi . See also:

• SCHOLASTICISM

Scholasticism he condemned on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of its unquestioning submission to See also:

• ARISTOTLE
• ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

Aristotle . See also:

• TAURELLUS, NICOLAUS (1547-1606)

Taurellus maintained the See also:

• NECESSITY (Lat. necessitas)

necessity of going back to See also:

• CHRISTIANITY

Christianity itself, as at once the superstructure and the See also:

• JUSTIFICATION

justification of philosophy . His See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• WORKS

works were Philosophiae Triumphus (1573) ; Synopsis Metaphysicae Aristotelis (1596); De Rerum Aeternitate (1604); and a See also:

• TREATISE

treatise written in See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism of See also:

• CAESALPINUS (CESALPIN0), ANDREAS (1519—1603)

Caesalpinus entitled Caesae Alpes (1597) . See Schmid-Schwarzenburg, Nicolaus Taurellus (186o and 1864) .