NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Albertus Magnus, Robert Grosseteste, Natural Philosophy
22 Jan 2020
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Introduction why would it be a mistake to call the medieval period the dark ages? . The term dark ages is problematic for two reasons. First, although both natural philosophy and the technical arts were in relative decline in europe during the early medieval period, the same was not true in other parts of the world. For example, china was undergoing its golden age of technological development at this time (see below) In addition, natural philosophy was flourishing in the arab world. For example, medieval islamic world considered by many to be heir to greek science leaders in most scientific fields from 800-1300 ad. Early rulers in islamic world were open to knowledge from foreign cultures and this included greek philosophy and science. Islamic scholars were mere translators, imitators of greeks who are given credit only for translating works into arabic.
