Note 629 — Chapter VI · COSMOGONY, COSMOLOGY, AND COSMOGRAPHY

Notably in the De finitate motus et temporis and in the unpublished Hexaemeron; see Baur, Philos. Werke des Grosseteste, 1912 (under Grosseteste (under Grosseteste in the Bibliography), pp. 19*-24*—especially p. 23*—93*-95*, 101–106). Robert Grosseteste’s pupil, Roger Bacon, “believed that he was in a position to demonstrate by philosophical proofs that the world had a beginning; and besides he maintained that Aristotle never maintained a contrary doctrine” (Duhem, op. cit., vol. v, p. 402). Albertus Magnus, on the other hand, did not categorically deny the truth of the Aristotelian 421teaching, “but rather treated it as a theory that must be accepted from the philosophical point of view but rejected from the theological” (Zöckler, op. cit., vol. i, p. 439). Bacon discussed this matter in an unpublished work now preserved in the Bibliothèque Municipale at Amiens, MS. no. 406, fol. 69, col. a; see Duhem, op. cit., vol. iii, 1915, pp. 260–277. Albertus Magnus discussed the same subject in Summa theologiae, pt. II, tract. 11, and in De quattuor coaevis, both cited by Zöckler, op. cit., vol. i, p. 436.