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du livre , the first two centuries of print culture were almost
wholly medieval in content . More than ninety per cent of all
books printed were of medieval origin. And Professor Nef insists
in Cultural Foundations of Modern Industrialism (p. 33) that it
was medieval universalism or faith in the adequacy of intellect
to the understanding of all created beings that “gave men the
courage to read anew the book of nature, which almost every
European assumed had been made by God whom Christ
revealed. . . . Leonardo da Vinci and Copernicus and Vesalius
were reading that book anew, but they were not the discoverers
of the vital new methods of reading it. They belong to what
was in the main a transition period from the older science to
the new sciences. Their methods of examining natural
phenomena were derived mainly from the past.”
Thus the grandeur of Aquinas is in his explanation of how