Quote of the day
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Roger Bacon
Born: 1220
Died: 1294 (aged 74)
Bio: Roger Bacon, OFM, also known by the scholastic accolade Doctor Mirabilis, was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empirical methods.
Known for:
- Opus Majus (1267)
- On Signs (Opus Maius, Part 3, Chapter 2)
- Roger Bacon's philosophy of nature
- Root of the World and the Magical Letter
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