a disciple of Albertus Magnus
The first such disciple of Albertus
Magnus was his student Thomas
Aquinas, who was the greatest medieval systematizer of knowledge in
the Aristotelian mode of division and subdivision and by no means a
proselytizer for alchemy. Albertus
Magnus, it should be noted, was for a time the bishop of Regensburg, the nearest principal
medieval city on the Danube to the
north of Ingolstadt, the university
city to which Victor travels in the next chapter (1.2.3). Though he attributes the
choice of university to his parents (1.2.1), perhaps Victor's sense of
discipleship to
the bishop contributed to his acquiescence.
