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. (Albertus Magnus) c. 1200–80. Born in Germany, he worked mainly there and in Paris (and taught AQUINAS in the 1240s).
He contributed to empirical science, and was a pioneer in reconciling Greek and Arabic science and philosophy with Christianity. He also translated Aristotle from Greek to Latin. He studied PLATO and ARISTOTLE partly through the eyes of the Neoplatonists and the Arabs. He wrote, among other things, commentaries on Aristotle and other Greek authors, and on the Sentences of Peter Lombard and at the end of his life a Summa Theologiae.
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