Robert Balfour

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Robert Balfour

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Logic

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Why Is Robert Balfour Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Robert Balfour was a Scottish philosopher. He was educated at the University of St Andrews and the University of Paris. He was for many years principal of the College of Guienne at Bordeaux. Works His great work is his Commentarii in Organum Logicum Aristotelis ; the copy in the British Museum contains a number of highly eulogistic poems in honour of Balfour, who is described as Graium aemulus acer. Balfour was one of the scholars who contributed to spread over Europe the fame of the praefervidum ingenium Scotorum. His contemporary, Thomas Dempster, called him the "phoenix of his age, a philosopher profoundly skilled in the Greek and Latin languages, and a mathematician worthy of being compared with the ancients."

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Robert Balfour ?

Robert Balfour is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of St Andrews
• University of Paris