Bacon, Roger
BACON, ROGER (c. 1214–c. 1292), philosopher and Franciscan friar. Born in the west of England of a wealthy family, for most of his life Bacon alternated between England and France....
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Roger Bacon
c. 1214-1292
English Philosopher, Educational Reformer, and Franciscan Monk
Roger Bacon played a key role in the early stages of the movement which eventually led to the Scientific Revolut...
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Bacon, Roger(Between 1214 and 1220?–1292)
Roger Bacon, English philosopher and scientist, known as Doctor Mirabilis, was probably born between 1214 and 1220 and died in 1292, probably at Oxford...
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Bacon, Roger [addendum]
Twentieth-century research on Roger Bacon requires some changes to the account above. It is clear that Richard Rufus, and not Bacon, was the first to lecture on the new Aristot...
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The medieval English philosopher Roger Bacon (ca. 1214-1294) insisted on the importance of a so-called science of experience, or "scientia experimentalis." In this respect he is often regarded as a fo...
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Roger Bacon, a medieval English philosopher and scholar, is believed to have been born near Ilchester, Somerset. His family was apparently wealthy. Following his studies at Oxford under Robert Grosset...
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Roger Bacon, also called doctor mirabilis, was a natural philosopher and Franciscan monk who was regarded as one of the most controversial figures of the thirteenth century. His revolutionary ideas an...
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Information about the life of Roger Bacon is slim; scholars have invented conflicting chronologies and have assumed a great deal about his career. The commonly accepted view is that set out by Theodor...
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Wood was an historian whose works are primarily concerned with the City and University of Oxford. In the following excerpt from a chapter reprinted from his Historia et Antiquitates Universitatis Oxon...
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In the following excerpt, Hirsch offers a disinterested assessment of the philological theory and practice of Bacon, tracing possible sources and assessing his influence.
Roger Bacon held that the kno...
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Newbold was the Adam Seybert Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania until his death in 1926. He was a master at decoding ciphers, a lifelong passion, and he s...
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Steele was one of the editors of the twelve-volume Opera Hactenus Inedita Fratris Rogeri Baconis (1905-40). In the following excerpt, he places Bacon within the context of his world and of his scholar...
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In the following excerpt from a work originally published in 1927, Sarton surveys Bacon's achievement, arranged by discipline, referring occasionally to his unfinished Compendium philosophiae.
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In the following excerpt, Dawson summarizes the significance of Bacon's thought and its originality, citing him as a key example of the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake.
[It] is difficult ...
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In the following excerpt, Woodruff examines the role of Bacon as a critic of and among the Schoolmen, comparing his philosophical emphases with those of Thomas Aquinas, Alexander of Hales, and others....
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A respected and prolific author, Russell was an English philosopher and mathematician known for his support of humanistic concerns. Two of his early works, Principles of Mathematics (1903) and Princip...
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In the following essay, Mayer discourses upon Bacon's achievement, arguing that Bacon, far from being a dabbler in medieval magic, was a scholar who believed that the pursuit of scientific know...
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In the following excerpt, Easton sketches the philosophy of science "which Bacon took for granted as his intellectual framework, but himself never stated in formal terms.'
It has sometim...
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In the following excerpt, Crombie demonstrates the influence of Robert Grosseteste 's thought upon Bacon 's scientifictheories.
The writer who most thoroughly grasped, and who mostelabor...
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Gilson was a prominent and prolific Neo-Thomist philosopher. He was the founder and longtime director of the Institute of Mediaeval Studies in association with St. Michael's College, the Univer...
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In the following excerpt, Weinberg succinctly summarizes Bacon's philosophy and its significance.
In his Opus Majus, a lengthy exposition of the need to improve philosophical study, Roger Bacon...
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In the following essay, Kupfer examines Bacon's credentials as the true father of empiricism for awarding "utility, observation, and 'experience' the central place in his p...
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Hackett has written extensively on Bacon's works. In the following excerpt, he examines four of Bacon's works to discern the identity of the "unnamed master" derided by Bac...
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Lindberg has written extensively on Bacon's accomplishment and is the editor of Roger Bacon's Philosophy of Nature: A Critical Edition with English Translation, Introduction, and Notes o...
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In the essay below, Hackett seeks to demonstrate that Bacon managed to reproduce the essential teaching of Averroes's treatise Kitab fasl al-maqal (The Decisive Treatise Determining the Nature ...
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Brewer was Professor of English Literature at King's College, London, and Reader at the Rolls. By the authority of Queen Victoria 's Treasury and under the direction of the Master of the...
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In the following excerpt, an anonymous critic surveys Bacon's career and outlines Bacon's character based on his writings.
Roger Bacon is one of the few really great men who have been eq...
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In the following excerpt, Plumptre offers a general estimate of Bacon's teaching on universals and of his views on ethical and political philosophy. The critic also discusses the relation in wh...
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Morris was Lecturer on Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and an Associate of the Victoria Institute, London. In the following excerpt, he surveys Bacon's accomplishment as the work of a ma...
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In the following excerpt, Maxwell summarizes Bacon's significance as an enlightener of the modern mind, emphasizing his role as a persecuted seeker of truth.
The coincidence that Roger Bacon bo...
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In the following excerpt, Taylor offers a balanced examination of Bacon's attitude toward Scripture and the doctrines of the Church, his views of the state of knowledge in his time, and his int...
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Bacon, Roger
Roger Bacon
Bacon, Roger (Between 1214 and 1220?–1292)
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
