…The greatest Christian clergymen of the time, such as R. Bacon, Albertus Magnus, and Thomas Aquinas, were also strongly influenced by alchemical ideas. Aristotelian philosophy, which had previously been rejected, was accepted by the Christian world as something that allowed them to understand the divine light of nature, and its idea of the fifth element, combined with the alchemical idea that the heavenly things extend deeply to the earth, was considered important as quinta essentia (meaning the fifth essence, in English quintessence), that is, the quintessence of things. … *Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Quinta Essentia" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…R.ベーコン,アルベルトゥス・マグヌス,トマス・アクイナスなど当時のキリスト教会の最も偉大な聖職者たちの心も,錬金術思想に強くとらえられた。これまでは排斥されていたアリストテレス哲学が,神的な自然の光を理解させるものとしてキリスト教世界に受容され,その第五元素の考え方は,天界のものが地上に深く及んでいるという錬金術特有の発想とあいまって,クインタ・エッセンティアquinta essentia(〈第5のエッセンス〉の意。英語ではquintessence),つまり,ものの〈精髄〉として重要視された。… ※「クインタ・エッセンティア」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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