 | Frederick Binkerd Artz - 1968 - 180 דפים
...Schoolmen, who having strong and sharp wits and abundance of leisure and small variety of reading, but their' wits being shut up in the cells of a few...great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spun out to us those laborious webs of learning which are extant in their books. For the wit and mind... | |
 | Peter Sutcliffe, Peter H. Sutcliffe - 1978 - 354 דפים
...schoolmen: who having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator)., .did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spin out unto us those laborious... | |
 | Alan Holland - 1985 - 364 דפים
...made clear, for example, in the Advancement of Learning, where Bacon again says that The schoolmen ... their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator,... did out of no great quantity of matter spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning which are... | |
 | Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson - 1988 - 339 דפים
...scholasticism that dominated the university in his day. He described his tutors as "Men of sharp wits, shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle, their Dictator" (quoted in Eiseley , 1973). Throughout the rest of his scholarly life he was to stress the conflict... | |
 | Samuel Schoenbaum - 1987 - 420 דפים
...'those laborious webs of learning' which, according to Francis Bacon, the scholastic philosophers spun out of 'no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit'. The task of the responsible biographer is to clear away the cobwebs, and sift, as dis75 11. Anne Hathaway's... | |
 | Ernst Breisach - 1993 - 272 דפים
...possible a useless spinning of 130 "laborious webs of learning" that had resulted in scholars with "their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors...shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges." 3 Now, in the modern period, a pragmatically reshaped rationality must and would pervade all thought... | |
 | Ernst Breisach - 1993 - 276 דפים
...possible a useless spinning of 130 "laborious webs of learning" that had resulted in scholars with "their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors...persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges."3 Now, in the modern period, a pragmatically reshaped rationality must and would pervade... | |
 | Tom Sorell - 1993 - 372 דפים
...debate, with Bacon himself in 1605 specifically characterizing the schoolmen as having 'their wits . . . shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator)', and Boyle even some eighty years on likewise referring to Aristotle as the 'master' of 'the school-philosophers'.... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1994 - 532 דפים
...effect of inquiry being restricted to a single system was shown by the medieval scholastics, whose wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly...were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges . . . did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those... | |
 | Markku Peltonen - 1996 - 406 דפים
...abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading. Their wit was shut up in the cells of a few authors as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges. They knew little history either of nature or time. Out of no great quantity of matter and infinite... | |
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This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the school-men, who, having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading f but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their... 
