Eriugena, John Scottus
ERIUGENA, JOHN SCOTTUS (fl. 847–877), was a Christian theologian and philosopher. Eriugena was born in Ireland in the first quarter of the ninth century, and there he rec...
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John Scotus Erigena
c. 810-c. 877
Irish theologian and philosopher who in his De divisione naturae (862-66) put forth the theory that Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter all orbit the Sun—an extr...
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Erigena, John Scotus(C. 810–C. 877)
John the Scot (Irishman) or Erigena (of Irish birth) was active as a scholar in the court of Charles the Bald around 850 to 870. He intervened in the debate ...
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John Scottus Eriugena was the most original synthetic thinker between the time of Augustine and that of Thomas Aquinas. He is certainly the greatest Irish philosopher of all time. In recognition of th...
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The Irish philosopher and theologian John Scotus Erigena (ca. 810-ca. 877) wrote "On the Division of Nature," one of the major philosophical works of the Middle Ages.Ireland was one of the most import...
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