age ~68
from Montclair, NJ
… entered the Franciscan order. About 1238 he became the lecturer of the Franciscan house at Oxford, and within a few years was regarded by the English province of that order as an intellectual and spiritual leader. Roger Bacon, his pupil, speaks highly of his attainments in theology and math...
…Roger Bacon s'est intress l'alchimie dans son Opus minus (1267)[40], dans son Opus tertium[41], dans son commentaire au Secret des secrets (1275-1280) qu'il croit tort d'Aristote; mais Le miroir d'alchimie (Speculum alchimiae)[42] date du XVe s.: il est d'un Pseudo-Roger Bacon. Roger Bacon...
…polymath Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham, d. c. 1041), which was mediated by Franciscan optical workshops of the 13th-century Perspectivae traditions of scholars such as Roger Bacon, John Peckham and Witelo (similar influences are also traceable in the third commentary of Lorenzo Ghiberti, Commentar...
… long introduction by Robert Graves.[20] The book chronicles the impact of Sufism on the development of Western civilisation and traditions from the seventh century onward through the work of such figures as Roger Bacon, John of the Cross, Raymond Lully, Chaucer and others, and has become a ...
Author
Roger Bacon
ISBN #
0198581645
Author
Roger Bacon
ISBN #
0404184952
Mathematicians
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