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ECOLOGICAL IDEAS OF THE DOMINICANS
Marijan Biškup
; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet, Zagreb
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Since the beginnings of the Dominican order (13th century) the theological studies of its members were accompanied by a vivid interest for nature and its investigation. The founder of this intensified research of living creatures and nature was Albert the Great (1193–1280), a German Dominican priest who taught in Paris and was the bishop of Regensburg. Together with Jordan of Saxony and his colleagues at the University of Paris he founded the exact and the natural sciences. Albert the Great compiled many scientific works exerting enormous influence on philosophical and teological writers of the Dominican order, including the Croatian Dominicans. Some of them, such as the bishop of Zagreb Augustin Kažotić, have left no written documents on natural sciences, but according to the preserved sources they made great efforts in terms of healthy human environment. Kažotić digged wells with healthy and drinkable water, planted lime–trees to be used as medicine for inhabitants of his diocese, and asked his friend Arnold of Bamberg to compile for him a complete work for health care ("Regimen sanitatis"). Other priests compiled documents in the fields of natural sciences, medicine and pharmacology. So Grgur Natalis Budislavić wrote the text "Budislavii Natali Bosnii Sylva, sive observationes in historiam naturalem et rem pharmaceuticam". The manuscript has been preserved in the university library of Bologna. In addition to other philosophical works, Vinko Komneović wrote the scientific work "Adnotationes in geometriam, arithmeticam, musicam et astrologiam". Ignatius Aquilini compiled the work "House doctor", the first small work on popular medicine written in Croatian. The manuscript has been stored in the Dominican monastery in Dubrovnik. It can be presumed that there were many more such and similar writings with ecological topics, but worthy manuscripts on philosophy, teology and natural sciences have been destroyed due to earthquakes, numerous military actions and fires that happened in Croatia during the past centuries.
Ključne riječi
ecology; ecological consciousness; ecosystem; pharmacology; natural science; health care
Hrčak ID:
141321
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Datum izdavanja:
15.9.2001.
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