William of Conches
12th-century French scholastic philosopher / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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William of Conches (c. 1090/1091 ā c. 1155/1170s) was a French 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.