Maurus

PHYSICS DISPUTATION

EXAMINING

The reasons & causes why many people abhor the eating of Cheese?

JOANNES MAURUS

First Thesis.

Although it is the saying of the master of subtlety, Julius Caesar Scaliger original: "Julij Cæsaris Scaligeri", in Exercitationes 218 against Cardano, section 18: "It is the height of impudence to reduce everything to manifest qualities." And in Exercitationes 101, section 14, he attacked Cardano, a man otherwise most learned in nature, with this invective: "What evil Alexandrian genius drove you to say, miserably, that it can happen by the mere permission of the elements that iron is attracted by a magnet?" It cannot be denied that for those who attempt to reduce everything to primary qualities, it often happens in practice, as Galen writes of Epicurus and Asclepiades in Book 1, On the Natural Faculties, chapter 14, that they bring forward reasons that are either inept and