5 sentences with “rigour”

As early as 400 BC, Hippocrates analysed with scientific rigour the relationship between health and climate in terms of seasonal changes and different types of wind.

The Jesuits themselves were required to undergo an eleven-year period of training and education before becoming full members, and insisted on the highest quality of rigour and scholarship in their training and in the education they gave to others.

For the first time, and with the utmost rigour, science studies the sensations that occur at the edge of death. It is no coincidence, surely, that these conclusions have too many links with theological and philosophical positions developed since the dawn of humanity.

In the course of the 11th century, translations of Aristotle's work on formal philosophical logic re-emerged in Europe. Most had been preserved in the Arab world, where Aristotle was considered the most important pre-Islamic philosopher and was studied with great rigour by Arab scholars.

The new rigour of education and the expansion of cathedral schools, helped in part by the popularity of figures such as Peter Abelard, led in turn to the emergence of the first true universities. Initially, they were comparable to craft guilds, with organisations of students and teachers negotiating the cost of tuition and preventing unauthorised teachers from poaching students.