"Clement VII" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Naturalis in 1436, considered Nature, like Thomas Aquinas, from a mystical and scholastic point of view, as made up of living beings in a graduated scale from the lowest to the highest; and he lauded her in terms which even Pope Clement VII. thought exaggerated. Piety in him went hand in hand with a natural philosophy like Bacon's, and his interest in Nature was rather a ...
— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese |
