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	'''Roger Bacon''', aka "Doctor Mirabilis" (The Wonderful Doctor), (1214-1294) was a Scholastic Theologian, and with [[Albertus Magnus]] one of the founders of the Scientific Method.		'''Roger Bacon''', aka "Doctor Mirabilis" (The Wonderful Doctor), (1214-1294) was a Scholastic Theologian, and with [[Albertus Magnus]] one of the founders of the [[Scientific Method]].

	:'There are two modes of knowing -- by argument and by experience: argument concludes and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not produce certainty and remove doubt, and enable the mind to rest in sight of the truth, unless it find it by the way of experience.'		:'There are two modes of knowing -- by argument and by experience: argument concludes and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not produce certainty and remove doubt, and enable the mind to rest in sight of the truth, unless it find it by the way of experience.'
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	* [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/bacon2.html ORB Medieval Sourcebook has his 1268 On Experimental Science]		* [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/bacon2.html ORB Medieval Sourcebook has his 1268 On Experimental Science]

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	Roger Bacon, aka The Wonderful Doctor ; 1214-1294		'''Roger Bacon''', aka "Doctor Mirabilis" (The Wonderful Doctor), (1214-1294) was a Scholastic Theologian, and with [[Albertus Magnus]] one of the founders of the Scientific Method.

		⚫	:'There are two modes of knowing -- by argument and by experience: argument concludes and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not produce certainty and remove doubt, and enable the mind to rest in sight of the truth, unless it find it by the way of experience.'
	Scholastic Theologian, and with [[Albertus Magnus]] one of the founders of the Scientific Method.

		⚫	He was the first to record how to make [[gunpowder]] and certainly experimented in optics, [[alchemy]], geography and [[geometry]].

⚫	'There are two modes of knowing -- by argument and by experience: argument concludes and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not produce certainty and remove doubt, and enable the mind to rest in sight of the truth, unless it find it by the way of experience.'

⚫	~~Alleged~~ to ~~have~~ ~~invented~~ gunpowder; certainly experimented in optics, alchemy, geography and geometry.

	==External Links==		==External Links==

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	'There are two modes of knowing -- by argument and by experience: argument concludes and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not produce certainty and remove doubt, and enable the mind to rest in sight of the truth, unless it find it by the way of experience.'		'There are two modes of knowing -- by argument and by experience: argument concludes and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not produce certainty and remove doubt, and enable the mind to rest in sight of the truth, unless it find it by the way of experience.'

	Alleged to have invented gunpowder ; certainly experimented in optics, alchemy, geography and geometry.		Alleged to have invented gunpowder; certainly experimented in optics, alchemy, geography and geometry.

			==External Links==
		⚫	* [http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/scholas3.htm Rickaby's "Scholasticism"]
		⚫	* [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/bacon2.html ORB Medieval Sourcebook has his 1268 On Experimental Science]

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⚫	~~Rickaby's "Scholasticism" has a section on him here~~ http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/scholas3.htm

⚫	~~The~~ ORB Medieval Sourcebook has his 1268 On Experimental Science ~~here~~
	http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/bacon2.html

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Roger Bacon, aka The Wonderful Doctor ; 1214-1294

Scholastic Theologian, and with [[Albertus Magnus]] one of the founders of the Scientific Method.

'There are two modes of knowing -- by argument and by experience: argument concludes and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not produce certainty and remove doubt, and enable the mind to rest in sight of the truth, unless it find it by the way of experience.'

Alleged to have invented gunpowder ; certainly experimented in optics, alchemy, geography and geometry.

Rickaby's "Scholasticism" has a section on him here http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/scholas3.htm

The ORB Medieval Sourcebook has his 1268 On Experimental Science here
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/bacon2.html