NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Plough, Movable Type, Horse Collar
20 Apr 2013
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Hugh of st. victor around 1140 ad who saw the mechanical arts as part of man"s religious and philosophical quest . St. victor saw mechanical arts as a branch of knowledge that paralleled theoretical knowledge and practical arts. Theoretical knowledge was a remedy for ignorance; practical knowledge a remedy for vice and the mechanical arts a remedy for physical weakness. Pursuing any of these kinds of knowledge would contribute to man"s rise from his fallen state (i. e. garden of eden, adam and eve, etc ) and would lead to religious salvation. Different ideas about how influential st. victor"s views were. Most positive attitudes towards technology found in artisan monk and laboring classes as opposed to medieval philosophers who continued to reject the importance of the technical arts. In treatises written by these philosophers, the mechanical arts continued to be subordinate to all other sciences.
