The first such disciple of Albertus Magnus was his student Thomas Aquinas, who was
the greatest medieval systematizer of knowledge in the Aristotelian mode of division
and subdivision and by no means a proselytizer for alchemy. Albertus Magnus, it should
be noted, was for a time the bishop of Regensburg, the nearest principal medieval
city on the Danube to the north of Ingolstadt, the university city to which Victor
travels in the next chapter (I:2:8). Though he attributes the choice of university
to his parents (I:2:1), perhaps Victor's sense of discipleship to the bishop contributed
to his acquiescence.