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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]].


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


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


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


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Alleged to have invented gunpowder ; certainly experimented in optics, alchemy, geography and geometry.
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Rickaby's "Scholasticism" has a section on him here http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/scholas3.htm

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

Latest revision as of 17:12, 6 July 2006

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.'

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

External Links

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