Abstract
By adopting the Global History as a method, this article analyses, in the construction of the western scientific thought of the 13th century, the articulations between the ways of thinking and the knowledge that was produced in distinct temporalities and historical spatialities. From the analysis of the Image du Mond, a literary work written by Gossouin de Metz, around 1245, we intend to reconnect the french intellectual environment with the circulation of both ancient greek and medieval arabic knowledge. In this reflection, the profound changes on the medieval man’s perception of the nature, and the search for scientific explanations about the Earth and everything that exists in it, occupy a crucial place.
Keywords:
Global History; Midle Age; Nature; Cosmology; Encyclopedism