William Adolf Scribonius (* 1550 in Marburg; "† 1600 in basket oh) were a philosopher, a physician and a teacher. It went also as a witch theoretician into action.

Life

Approximately in the year 1550 William Adolf Scribonius (= latinisierte form of "“writer"”) is to have been born in Marburg. Unfortunately this is not completely safe, because few data of its life are generally delivered. It is safe that he attained a doctorate at the Philipps university Marburg. Afterwards it taught still some time in Marburg Philosophie, particularly the logic, before it went in the year 1581 to basket oh. Here he transferred the task to lead and above all logic inform the third class of the recently created High School to basket oh.

The desire to Scribonius' basket oh to go, seems to be connected closely with the fact that it was a trailer of Petrus Ramus. Also the again created High School in basket oh seems to have represented this direction. Briefly before the appointment of Scribonius after basket oh these had therefore already strive Rudolf Goclenius D." To get to their High School, since it did not face the opinions of the Petrus Ramus at least averse. Scribonius' could be thus safe that he was allowed to represent RAMistic theses, even if these were not undisputed in basket oh in school instruction. Perhaps Rudolf Goclenius of the school recommended even William Adolf Scribonius, because it is assumed that both were friendly; safe it is anyhow that they knew each other.

Apart from the logic Scribonius informed also still occasionally the fan physics and ethics at the Korbacher High School.

Since the salary of a teacher or was not only hardly sufficient at that time to afford a certain standard of living Scribonius worked as the studied medical profession also as a practical physician in basket oh.

William Adolf Scribonius seems to have found into basket oh a homeland, because although he was married never, he remained up to his death, in the December of the yearly 1600, here.

Work and meaning

The work of William Adolf Scribonius is relatively extensive. It wrote medical, philosophical, scientific and theological writings. In most of its writings it tried to describe and/or continue however - independently of the group of topics - the theories of the Petrus Ramus either or use it. It can be considered thus as a convinced trailer of the RAMism.

In the following some examples of its literary activity are to be specified:

Its most important work within the field of philosophy:

• Its most important philosophical writing carries the title triumph to the Logica Ramea carries, where it turns to the logic of the Petrus Ramus. But perhaps, as the title suggests, it does not only praise these, but it tries to even still supplement it and feels partially also endeavored to correct these. From this clear that William Adolf Scribonius is not only a "“Nachbeter"” of the ideas of others, but is quite endeavored, resuming, to develop independent thoughts and state these also plausibly.

Examples of writings of the school teaching:

• The small, theological writing Idea Sacrosanctae Theologiea from the year 1596.
• 1585 appeared its scientific writing Rerum naturalium doctrina methocia, which must apply already alone by its clear structure and by the use of illustration as didactically through-structured work. It described herein not only the history of the development of the natural sciences very descriptive, but reflects the conditions of the realization of its own time also quite critically. That it itself with this writing around training work to act must, shows itself for example also that it presents theories, which it stated in works in more detail and more scientifically put on here in a summarized, simpler form.

Examples of scientific writings:

• In its astronomical books Isagoge Sphaerica Methodice Proposita from the year 1581, and Disciplina Sphaerica Methodice Tradita (1591) he represents the thesis that the science of the Gestirnen, planet, moons etc. is the most important subrange of physics.

Medical works:

• The fact that it felt much as "“Korbacher"” points a small manual to the plague fight doubt and short report against the greulichen plague different 97. and still current 98. Yearly. To use of the commendable common city Corbach publicirt. It guessed/advised herein its co-inhabitants to aim at a containment of the epidemic by the fact that they should burn down and into these herbs throw fires. Whether the Korbacher had however the feeling that the scholarly pieces of advice of Scribonius was helpful in view of the fact that in the year 1597 according to church book about 500 humans found, in the year 1598 about 180 humans and 1599 again nearly 150 humans death by the plague, must remain open - nevertheless a clear decrease of the mortality rate is recognizable!
• With the medical writing Idea medicinae secundum logicas theses acc. de inspectione urinarum versus eos, qui ex etc., the 1584 in Lemgo appeared qualibet urina de quolibet morbo judicare volunt and then equal one year later again in Basel, quite attained in the area to the medicine to some reputation. It attacks herein the Uroskopie after the model Galens and the Arab medicine.

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