Domingo de Soto lived from 1494 to 15 November 1560 and was a Spanish Dominican priest, Scholastic theologian and naturalist, born in Segovia and dying in Salamanca. He is best known as one of the founders of international law and of the Spanish Thomistic philosophical and theological movement known as the School of Salamanca. He also contributed to mechanical physics: his works on mechanics and gravity, presented in his 1551 book Physicorum Aristotelis quaestiones, served as a basis for the later studies of Galileo and Isaac Newton.
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What part did Domingo de Soto play in the School of Salamanca?
He was a leading disciple of Vitoria who helped make Salamanca a center of revived Scholasticism.
Domingo de Soto was one of the disciples of Francisco de Vitoria who, together with Melchor Cano, helped transform the University of Salamanca into a center for a revived Scholasticism. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy describes this work as applying Thomism to practical problems such as the evangelization of the indigenous populations of the New World and the legality of slavery.
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Domingo de Soto (1494 – 15 November 1560) was a Spanish Dominican priest and Scholastic theologian and naturalist born in Segovia (Spain), and died in Salamanca (Spain), at the age of 66.
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He is best known as one of the founders of international law and of the Spanish Thomistic philosophical and theological movement known as the School of Salamanca.
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Domingo de Soto (1494 - 15 November 1560) was a Spanish Dominican priest and Scholastic theologian and naturalist born in Segovia (Spain), and died in Salamanca (Spain), at the age of 66.
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was a Spanish Dominican priest and Scholastic theolog
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P570 (date of death): 1560-12-05
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P19 (place of birth): Segovia
Wikidata Q1237514, P20 place of death claim
P20 (place of death): Salamanca
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