Antiquity. Albert Veliky

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On the first place among outstanding scientists of the Middle Ages it is necessary to put Albert Velikogo (1193-1280), the formed Dominican monk who was born in Lenengene, in Swabia.

Albert had reputation of one of the most all-round scientists of time. It maintained brisk relations with the Arabian scientists, in the numerous products addressed to a scientific heritage of great Greek thinkers, including Aristotle the pioneer in the field of intellectual knowledge and it is a lot of time having devoted to the edition and interpretation of its works.

Recognizing that natural study irrespective of belief, he simultaneously considered, as it, and theology investigate the same subject, but only from the different points of view. Albert's merits in the field of the biological researches based on works of Aristotle and Teofrasta (Feofrasta) are great.

He Was engaged and comparative studying of plants, from mushrooms to colours. Albert studied also questions of reproduction and occurrence of new biological kinds, explaining these phenomena by means of a hypothesis about convertibility of kinds.

In works of the scientist the big place is occupied with researches in area embriologii, become by top of achievements of a medieval science.

Albert Velikogo's Sights influenced scientists within several next centuries, about it said that it ' a great wise man in sciences about the nature, still bolshy in philosophy and the greatest in theology '.

The Arabian astronomer and the astrologist the expert-sufi (Abu-l-Hu-sajn Abd-ar-Rahman ibn Umar the expert-sufi) (903-986) was One of the best representatives of medieval observant astronomy. Been born near to modern Teheran, it from 960 worked in state Bundov capital, Shiraz, at court of the governor the Aduda-hell-dauda where has organised astronomical supervision and supervised over them. In the ' to the Book of fixed stars ' it results the catalogue of 1017 stars and the description of 48 constellations, giving for everyone its image and the table of stars with the co-ordinates adhered to ekliptike. The catalogue used in all Arabian world, and also at drawing up ' Alfonsovyh of tables ' in Spain; it was repeatedly translated on Latin.