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You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet—you've not got your niche in creation.
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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