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Roger Bacon (1214-1292)

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  • 1233

    Master at Oxford

    Master at Oxford
    Speaks before the King mainly about Aristotelian and pseudo-Aristotelian treatises
  • 1241

    Paris University

    Paris University
    Gave a class about Aristotelian Corpus which included physics, meta-physics and the pseudo-Aristotelian De Vegetabilibus and the De Causis
  • 1256

    Becoming a Friar

    Becoming a Friar
    Friar in the Franciscan Order
  • 1265

    Opus Majus, Opus Minus, De Multiplicatione Specierum

    Opus Majus, Opus Minus, De Multiplicatione Specierum
    Sent books to pope to explain ho science and Aristotle's philosophy could be applied in establishing a new way of learning which could help the church.
  • 1278

    Communia Naturalium, Communia Mathematica and Compendium Studii Philosophie

    Communia Naturalium, Communia Mathematica and Compendium Studii Philosophie
    Put on house arrest for his beliefs in alchemy and the general disregard for other innovators.
  • 1280

    Epistola de Secretis Operibus Artis et Naturae, et de Nullitate Magiae

    Epistola de Secretis Operibus Artis et Naturae, et de Nullitate Magiae
    The Letter on the Secret Working of Art and Nature, and on the Vanity of Magic disregarded magical practices and had the formula for the philosopher's stone and possibly gunpowder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxymggsUf1Q