The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use ( as " Androides ") to Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.

It was first documented by Albertus Magnus in 1250.

Albertus Magnus, O. P.

Contemporaries such as Roger Bacon applied the term " Magnus " to Albertus during his own lifetime, referring to his immense reputation as a scholar and philosopher.

Bust of Albertus Magnus by Vincenzo Onofri, c. 1493

Roman sarcophagus containing the relics of Albertus Magnus in the crypt of St. Andreas church in Cologne, Germany

According to legend, Albertus Magnus is said to have discovered the philosopher's stone and passed it to his pupil Thomas Aquinas, shortly before his death.

" Given that Thomas Aquinas died six years before Albertus Magnus ' death, this legend as stated is unlikely.

Iconography inspired by writings of Albertus Magnus

The iconography of the tympanum and archivolts of the late 13th-century portal of Strasbourg Cathedral was inspired by the writings of Albertus Magnus.

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Albertus Magnus is referred to as one of Victor Frankenstein's chosen readings.

In Robert Heinlein's novel Glory Road, the hero, Scar Gordon, reads a book of magic by Albertus Magnus and comments on love magic involving a wolf's burned hair.

In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, the character of Alberto Mallich ( founder of the Unseen University and later Death's manservant Albert ) is a sly nod to Albertus Magnus in his more legendary and esoteric guise.

Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s novel A Canticle for Leibowitz centers on a monastic order called the Albertian Order of Leibowitz, named by its founder after Albertus Magnus and dedicated to preserving scientific knowledge lost after a nuclear war.

A number of schools have been named after Albert, including Albertus Magnus High School in Bardonia, New York, Albertus Magnus Lyceum in River Forest, Illinois, and Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Connecticut.

The main science building at Providence College is named in honor of Albertus Magnus.

Albertus was educated principally at Padua, where he received instruction in Aristotle's writings.

The main science building at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is also named after Albertus Magnus.

In the Philippines, the Albertus Magnus Building at the University of Santo Tomas that houses the Conservatory of Music, College of Tourism and Hospitality Management, College of Education, and UST Education High School is named in his honor.

He studied at the Royal Albertus University.

The term affinity, as used in chemical relation, dates back to at least the time of Albertus Magnus in 1250.

It was not their Intention in the least at that Time to molest their Neighbours and Fellow Christians with Collections, for it has the appearance last Fall, as if they should have a promising Crop this Harvest, but that Hope is all lost for the most part of the Grane is kill'd with the Frost, and the Rest is destroy'd by the Insects, and now they have such a heavy Debt to pay, which they are not able to discharge out of their own Pokets: So they are obliged to implore all good-minded Christians who has it in their Hearts to promote the kingdom of Christ to assist them and lay some mite for the said Building of the said Church in the Hands of their Fellow Brothers wiiich they have send for that purpose Namely Albertus Simon and Jacob Weager.

Strong influences on the film were Bibi Andersson ( with whom Bergman was in a relationship 1955 – 59 ) who played the juggler's wife Mia, Picasso's picture of the two acrobats, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Strindberg's Folk Sagas and To Denmark, the frescoes at Haskeborga church and a painting by Albertus Pictor in Täby kyrka.

In addition to " The Long-Lost-Friend ," Hohman also wrote and published, or at least had attributed to him, a number of further books in German, including Unsers Herran Jesu Christi Kinderbuch, oder, Merkwurdige Historische Beschreibung Von Joachim Und Anna ( Our Lord Jesus Christ's Childhood-Book, or, The Strange Historical Description of Joachim and Anna ), and Albertus Magnus, oder, Der Lange Verborgene und Getreuer und Christlicher Unterricht fur Jedermann ( Albertus Magnus, or, Long Lost and True and Christian Instructions for Everyone ).

Around 1230 the Dominican Hugh of St-Cher proposed the idea of a " treasury " at the Church's disposal, consisting of the infinite merits of Christ and the immeasurable abundance of the saints ' merits, a thesis that was demonstrated by great scholastics such as Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas and remains the basis for the theological explanation of indulgences.

He was baptized at St. Mary Roman Catholic Church ( 1843 ), at the corner of St. Antoine and Croghan ( Monroe St .), on February 18, 1866, attended St. Albertus for his primary education, and studied at Detroit College ( now the University of Detroit Mercy ), where he received a bachelor's degree in 1884.

" He went up to London about 1580, but in 1583 when Albertus Alasco ( Albert Laski ), a Polish nobleman, was entertained at Christ Church, Peele was entrusted with the arrangement of two Latin plays by William Gager ( fl.

Artedi accidentally drowned at Amsterdam, where he was engaged in cataloguing the collections of Albertus Seba, a wealthy Dutchman, who had formed what was perhaps the richest museum of his time.

Hertling became professor of philosophy at the University of Munich, and while professor he published books on Aristotle ( 1871 ) and on Albertus Magnus ( 1880 ).

Victor Frankenstein, eldest son of Alphonse and Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein, builds the creature in his laboratory through methods of science ( he was a chemistry student at University of Ingolstadt ) and alchemy ( largely based on the writings of Paracelsus, Albertus Magnus, and Cornelius Agrippa ) which are not clearly described.

In the 13th century, scientific inquiry was returning and this was manifest through the production of encyclopaedias ; those noted for their plant content included a treatise by Albertus Magnus ( c. 1193 – 1280 ) a Suabian educated at the University of Padua and tutor to St Thomas Aquinas.

Following two years at the University of Göttingen, in 1884 he was invited to become an Extraordinary Professor at the Albertus Universität in Königsberg ; there he encountered the young David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski, on whom he had a major influence.

He studied at Ghent and then at Cologne under Albertus Magnus.

He was Baptised at St. Mary Roman Catholic Church ( 1843 ), at the corner of St. Antoine and Croghan ( Monroe ), on February 18, 1866, attended St. Albertus for his primary education, and studied at Detroit College which is now the University of Detroit Mercy where he received a Bachelor's degree in 1884 ; then, after attending St. Mary's in Baltimore, he completed his theological studies at St. Francis Seminary in Monroe, Michigan, and he was ordained by the Bishop John Samuel Foley in 1889.

As a tribute to the scholar's contributions to the law, the University of Houston Law Center displays a statute of Albertus Magnus.

* Online Galleries, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries High resolution images of works by Albertus Magnus in. jpg and. tiff format.

Saint James holds honorary degrees from five Connecticut institutions — The University of Connecticut, the University of Bridgeport, Southern Connecticut State University, Albertus Magnus College, and the University of New Haven.

Colleges and schools in Malang include State University of Malang, Brawijaya University, State Polytechnic of Malang ( Polinema ), STIE Malangkucecwara, University of Muhammadiyah Malang ( UMM ), Widyagama University of Malang ( UWG ), Malang State Islamic University of Maulana Malik Ibrahim ( UIN Maliki ), Institut Teknologi Nasional Malang ( ITN ) Merdeka University ( Unmer ), VEDC ( Vocational and Educational Development Center ), SMAK St. Maria, SMUK Kolese Santo Yusup, SMAK St. Albertus, SMAN 1, SMA Negeri 3 Malang, 4 Malang, SMU Negeri 8 Malang, SMP-SMA AR-ROHMAH MALANG, SMA Negeri 7 Malang, SMA Negeri 2 Malang.

* Saint Albertus Magnus ( 1193 / 1206 – 1280 ), German friar, bishop and Doctor of the Church – also known as Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne

Todestag, 1366-1966, Cologne: Albertus Magnus Verlag

* Albert of Cologne, St. Albertus Magnus, patron saint of medical technicians ; those in the natural sciences ; philosophers ; scientists ; students

His sixteenth-century biographer Albertus Hardenberg, who knew Gansfort's one-time famulus Goswinus van Halen, writes that Gansfort left Zwolle directly for Cologne, perhaps as late as 1449.