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Composed in Paris in the late 1120’s, Hugh of St. Victor’s Didascalicon provided intellectual and practical orientation for students of varying ages and levels of attainment who came in numbers to the newly founded Abbey of Saint Victor. As students took up studies at their different levels, this “medieval guide to the arts” offered a survey of all they should ultimately read, and of the order,...

hidden cause, so when its actuality has temporarily been destroyed, that work will return again to the place from which it came. Because of these facts,51 astronomers (mathematici) have divided the world into two parts: into that, namely, which stretches above the sphere of the moon and that which lies below it.52 The superlunary world, because in it all things stand fixed by primordial law, they called “nature,”53 while the sublunary
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