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Roger Bacon

Also known as Rogerus, Rogerus Bacon, Rogerus Baconus, Doctor Mirabilis, Frater Rogerus, Rogerus Baconis, Rogerius Baconis, Ruggiero Bacone

English polymath, philosopher and friar (c.1219/20–c.1292)

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Roger Bacon was a male philosopher, physicist, theologian, and musicologist from the Kingdom of England. Born in Somerset, Ilchester, Bisley, around 1214, he was educated at the University of Oxford and studied under Robert Grosseteste. A member of the Order of Friars Minor and adherent to Catholicism, he worked within the scholastic movement in the fields of theology and natural philosophy. He is also known by the pseudonym Doctor Mirabilis.

Bacon’s notable works include the *Opus Majus*, *Opus Tertium*, *Medicina practica: or, a practical physick*, and *Lettre sur les prodiges de la nature et de l'art*. He wrote in medieval Latin and Middle English. His writings have been described in sources such as the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition and the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. He died in Oxford in 1294.

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Person · Open Library

Born: c1214
Died: 1294
Works: 102

Top works

Lettre sur les prodiges de la nature et de l'art
Liber Alberti magni de duabus sapientijs et de recapitulatione omniu[m] libroru[m] Astronomie
Medicina practica: or, a practical physick
Opus Tertium
This boke doth treate all of the beste waters artyfycialles

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1977-03-17

composer

Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 151
Total plays: 770

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Esmeralda Road

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 84,720x
Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,511x
An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust
· 1995 · cited 28,239x
Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,716x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,612x

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Quotes

“Mix together saltpetre, luru vopo vir con utriet [powdered charcoal], and sulphur, and you will make thunder and lightning, if you know the method of mixing them.”
“Prudens quaestio dimidium scientiae.”
“Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may never rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns, his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.”
“There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.”
“Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.”
“Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.”

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Works in European collections

20 objects attributed to Roger Bacon, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Roger Bacon (/ˈbeɪkən/; Latin: Rogerus or Rogerius Baconus, Baconis, also Frater Rogerus; c. 1219/20 – c. 1292), also known by the scholastic accolade Doctor Mirabilis, was a medieval English polymath, philosopher, scientist, theologian and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empiricism. Intertwining his Catholic faith with scientific thinking, Roger Bacon is considered one of the greatest polymaths of the medieval period.

In the early modern era, he was regarded as a wizard and particularly famed for the story of his mechanical or necromantic brazen head. He is credited as one of the earliest European advocates of the modern scientific method, along with his teacher Robert Grosseteste. Bacon applied the empirical method of Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) to observations in texts attributed to Aristotle. Bacon discovered the importance of empirical testing when the results he obtained were different from those that would have been predicted by Aristotle.

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Roger Bacon