Guillelmus De Conchis
William of Conches (c. 1090/1091 – c. 1155/1170s) was a French people, French Scholasticism, scholastic philosopher who sought to expand the bounds of Christian humanism by studying secular works of the classics and fostering empirical science. He was a prominent member of the School of Chartres. John of Salisbury, a bishop of Chartres and former student of William's, refers to William as the most talented grammarian after Bernard of Chartres. Life He was born in Conches-en-Ouche, Conches, Normandy. His teaching activity extended from c. 1120 to 1154, and about the year 1145 he became the tutor of Henry II of England, Henry Plantagenet. It is possible, but uncertain, that he was teaching at Chartres before that. Warned by a friend of the danger implied in his Platonic realism as he applied it to theology, he took up the study of Islamic philosophy and Islamic science, physical science. When and where he died is a matter of uncertainty. William devoted much attention to cosm ...
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