eir thinking. In fact, the issuance of the Condemnation of 1277 may have led to consideration of precepts beyond the Aristotelian paradigm, which incited some of the most remarkable discoveries of the Middle Ages (Lindberg 69). In 1277, the Bishop of Paris solemnly proclaimed that several Worlds could exist, and that the entirety of the universe and its heavenly spheres could be animated. Many people consider this date to be the advent of modern science (Carroll par.1). It is therefore fascinating that Albert's experiments on the movement of heavenly bodies began so many years before this date. This shows the mark St. Albert had on the advent of experimental science and the church's acceptance of astrological study.
One of Albert's most notable contemporaries was Nicole Oresme. He is widely considered to be one of the "most brilliant natural philosophers and theologians of the 14th century" (Lindberg 58). He believed that only faith could generate real truth. In the mid 14th century, Nicole, the Bishop of Lisieux, wrote Algorismis Proportionum. It was never published but addressed the notation and computation of fractional exponents. Oresme also spent much of his time in the study of movement. Nicole pondered uniform motion (motion with constant velocity), difform motion (motion with varying velocity), and uniformly difform motion (motion with constant acceleration)(Kusukawa par. 6). Therefore, Oresme impacted the study of motion by his introduction of its categorization.
Thomas Brandwine, Jean de Ripa, and Nicole Oresme introduced the existence of a real, infinite void of space filled with a cosmic deity. Oresme believed God's deity to
...