ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to illustrate some of the issues that were under discussion by investigating the use of Aristotle by the professors of the arts faculty at the University of Tubingen in the late sixteenth century. It outlines the ways in which Aristotle's authority, particularly in cosmological questions, was being placed under scrutiny, but it show too that the criteria for judging the truth of these questions were methods of proof which themselves originated in Aristotelian logic as it was being taught at the university. The chapter focuses on University of Tubingen, the university at which Johannes Kepler studied between 1589 and 1594. In exploring the range of attitudes towards Aristotle and the Aristotelian corpus to be found at the University of Tubingen in the second half of the sixteenth century, we have encountered a range of views.
