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Roger Bacon OFM (/ ˈ b eɪ k ən /; [3] Latin: Rogerus or Rogerius Baconus, Baconis, also Frater Rogerus; c. 1219/20 – c. 1292), also known by the scholastic accolade Doctor Mirabilis, was a polymath, a medieval English philosopher, scientist, theologian and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empiricism.
John Baconthorpe was born at Baconsthorpe, Norfolk. [2] He may have been the grandnephew of Roger Bacon (Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 19. 116). In youth, he joined the Carmelite Order, becoming a friar [3] at Blakeney, [2] near Walsingham.
The Opus Majus (Latin for "Greater Work") is the most important work of Roger Bacon. It was written in Medieval Latin, at the request of Pope Clement IV, to explain the work that Bacon had undertaken. The 878-page treatise ranges over all aspects of natural science, from grammar and logic to mathematics, physics, and philosophy.
The Condemnation of 1210 was issued by the provincial synod of Sens, which included the Bishop of Paris as a member (at the time Pierre II de la Chapelle []). [3] The writings of a number of medieval scholars were condemned, apparently for pantheism, and it was further stated that: "Neither the books of Aristotle on natural philosophy or their commentaries are to be read at Paris in public or ...
13th-century Hindu philosophers and theologians (2 P) Pages in category "13th-century philosophers" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
Much more than Bacon's later linguistic works, the Summa Grammatica lies in the mainstream of 13th-century analysis. [3] The first part borrows directly from Robert Kilwardby's commentary on Priscian. [6] [7] More generally, the work reflects the speculative grammar taught at Oxford in such 13th-century works as the Logica cum Sit Nostra. [8]
A Syriac priest of the 12th or 13th century who wrote of Rabban Hormizd, a 7th-century Persian monk, and Rabban Bar-Idta (fl. c. 600) The Histories of Rabban Hormizd the Persian and Rabban Bar-Idta (1902). [90] Translated and edited by British Egyptologist and orientalist Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1857–1934). [91] [92] Abraham and Isaac.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626), English philosopher Baconian cipher , a method of steganography devised by Francis Bacon Bacon mania , a trend of enthusiasm for bacon in the US and Canada