Roger Bacon
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Roger Bacon was an English friar and philosopher who lived in the 13th century and made contributions across many fields of learning. He is historically significant for advocating the importance of experimentation and observation in understanding the natural world, ideas that helped shape the development of scientific thinking.
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- c1214
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- 1294
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- 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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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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