The text serves as a reasoned defense of God's existence, by relying on Platonic natural philosophy and Aristotelian logic to explain the creation of the world.
The continued warming of land caused the plant, animal, and human life to arise on the fifth and sixth days.
The Heptateuch is a broad encyclopedia of information relating to the liberal arts, all within the context of academic and theologic unity.
It particularly examines the ways in which different types of knowledge can be distinguished, while still supporting a single purpose: explaining order in reality.
The trivium (logic, grammar, and rhetoric) address the veracity, consistency, and beauty of the language of expression.