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Roger Bacon
Concerning the Marvelous Power of Art and Nature and the Nullity of Magic together with notes and an account of Bacon’s Life and Work.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
THIS 172 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Opus Majus of Roger Bacon Part 2, by Roger Bacon. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766126056.
An alchemical classic written by an English Franciscan philosopher and educational reformer, who was a major medieval proponent of experimental science. He studied mathematics, astronomy, optics, alchemy, and languages. His…
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
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" The operation of the alchemical elements in forty-seven revealing steps. The bodies of all natural things being as well perfect as imperfect from the original of time, and compounded…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1597 Edition.
This book contains two essays by Roger Bacon entitled The Root of the World wherein the bodies of all natural things being as well perfect as imperfect from the origin…
Title: The Most Famous History of the Learned Fryer Bacon … Also the merry waggeries of his man Miles: and the exploits of Vandermaster … and Fryer Bungy, etc.
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THIS 46 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Opus Majus of Roger Bacon Part 1, by Roger Bacon. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766126048.
The Study of Tongues is a book written by Roger Bacon, a 13th-century English philosopher and Franciscan friar. The book explores the study of languages and their origins, as well…
Mathematics by Roger Bacon is a comprehensive book that covers a wide range of mathematical topics. Bacon, a 13th-century English philosopher and scientist, was one of the most influential thinkers…
Experimental Science is a book written by Roger Bacon, a medieval scholar and philosopher. The book is a comprehensive guide to the scientific method and the principles of experimental science…
The Mirror of Alchimy by Roger Bacon has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
THIS 48 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Opus Majus of Roger Bacon Part 1, by Roger Bacon. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766126048.
THIS 38 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Opus Majus of Roger Bacon Part 1, by Roger Bacon. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766126048.
""Optical Science"" is a book written by Roger Bacon, a 13th-century English philosopher and scientist. It is a treatise on optics, covering topics such as the nature of light, the…
THIS 196 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Opus Majus of Roger Bacon Part 2, by Roger Bacon. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766126056.
The Mirror of Alchimy is a short alchemical manual, known in Latin as Speculum Alchemiae. Translated in 1597, it was only the second alchemical text printed in the English language…
A major updating of scholarship on the philosophy and thought of Roger Bacon. In particular, it treats his philosophy of language, science and mathematics, moral philosophy, medicine, physics and metaphysics…
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Robert Belle Burke
This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766126056. Volume 1 of 2. (This description is for both volumes.) Contains much of Bacon’s principle writings in mathematics, optics, experimental science…
This new edition of Bacon’s Compendium of the Study of Philosophy, with facing English translation, enables today’s readers to engage with Bacon’s philosophy. It provides a window on academic life…
THIS 60 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Opus Majus of Roger Bacon Part 2, by Roger Bacon. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766126056.
