Nicolaus Taurellus

He was born in the County of Mömpelgard, then part of the Duchy of Württemberg.

He attacked the dominant Aristotelianism of the time, and endeavoured to construct a philosophy which should harmonize faith and knowledge, and bridge over the chasm made by the first Renaissance writers who followed Pomponazzi.

Scholasticism he condemned on account of its unquestioning submission to Aristotle.

Taurellus maintained the necessity of going back to Christianity itself, as at once the superstructure and the justification of philosophy.

[3] His chief works were Philosophiae Triumphus (1573); Synopsis Metaphysicae Aristolelis (1596); De Rerum Aeternitate (1604); and a treatise written in criticism of Caesalpinus entitled Caesae Alpes (1597).