Thomas Bradwardine
English cleric, mathematician and courtier (c.1300ā1349) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Thomas Bradwardine (c. 1300 ā 26 August 1349) was an English cleric, scholar, mathematician, physicist, courtier and, very briefly, Archbishop of Canterbury. As a celebrated scholastic philosopher and doctor of theology, he is often called Doctor Profundus (medieval epithet, meaning "the Profound Doctor").
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Thomas Bradwardine | |
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Archbishop of Canterbury | |
Appointed | 4 June 1349 |
Term ended | 26 August 1349 |
Predecessor | John de Ufford |
Successor | Simon Islip |
Orders | |
Consecration | 19 July 1349 |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1300 |
Died | 26 August 1349 Canterbury |
Buried | Canterbury |
Education | Merton College, Oxford |
Philosophy career | |
Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
Era | Medieval philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | |
Main interests | Theology, natural philosophy |
Notable ideas | Insolubilia |
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