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    The Opus Majus (Latin for "Greater Work") is the most important work of Roger Bacon. It was written in Medieval Latin, at the request of Pope Clement IV...
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    Roger Bacon (redirect from Opus Minus)
    1750 edition of Opus majus Title page of 1750 edition of Opus majus First page of 1750 edition of Opus majus In Part IV of the Opus Majus, Bacon proposed...
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  • Edward. W. H. Allen. pp. 147–149. OCLC 9986841. R Bacon (2000) [1928]. The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon. translator: BR Belle. University of Pennsylvania Press...
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    Thomas Aquinas and of Roger Bacon, encouraging Bacon in the writing of his Opus Majus, which included important treatises on optics and the scientific method...
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    the Mongol army seized Kiev, then invaded Poland. Roger Bacon in his Opus Majus writes that the Mokshas were in the vanguard of the Mongol army and took...
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  • geometry and verifiable by experiment. Roger Bacon's assertions in the Opus Majus that "theories supplied by reason should be verified by sensory data,...
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    Translated by Sachau, C. Edward. pp. 147–149. R Bacon (2000) [1928]. The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon. BR Belle. University of Pennsylvania Press. table facing...
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    and 1280 in a treatise by Hasan al-Rammah, and in Europe by 1267 in the Opus Majus by Roger Bacon. It was employed in warfare to some effect from at least...
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  • replacing Plato: The closest Latin prototype is found in Roger Bacon, Opus Majus, Pars I, cap. v. Nam Plato dicit: "Amicus est Socrates, magister meus...
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    Alchemy (section Magnum opus)
    comparative linguistics, and medicine, composed his Great Work (Latin: Opus Majus) for Pope Clement IV as part of a project towards rebuilding the medieval...
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    then forms the spread of colors in the rainbow. His assertions in the Opus Majus that "theories supplied by reason should be verified by sensory data,...
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  • formulas for gunpowder, the first such reference. 1267 Roger Bacon's Opus Majus contains the first European reference to gunpowder. 1659 Ammonium nitrate...
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  • al-Haytham's Book of Optics Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine Roger Bacon's Opus Majus Francis Bacon's Novum Organum Alhazen Francis Bacon Galileo Galilei René...
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  • large treatises, the Opus Majus, Opus Minus, and Opus Tertium which he sent to the Pope. William Whewell has called Opus Majus at once the Encyclopaedia...
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    612 Earth radii or 73,387,747+100⁄660 miles (118,106,130.55 km). In his Opus Majus, Roger Bacon cited Al-Farghānī's distance to the stars of 20,110 Earth...
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  • Sacrobosco, De Anni Ratione ("On reckoning the years"), c. 1235 Roger Bacon, Opus Majus ("Greater Work"), c. 1267 Many countries that use other calendars for...
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    Grosseteste. His work on light was continued by Roger Bacon, who wrote in his Opus Majus of 1268 about experiments with light shining through crystals and water...
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    English Dictionary_2d_Ed_1989 Roger Bacon, translated by Robert Burke Opus Majus, Book I, Chapter 2. "A fact, it might be said, is a state of affairs that...
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    texts written by English philosopher Roger Bacon in 1267 called Opus Majus and Opus Tertium. The oldest written recipes in continental Europe were recorded...
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  • contemporary and fellow-Franciscan, cited the traveller copiously in his Opus Majus, and described him as "Brother William through whom the lord King of France...
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  • Tatars 1665 (t. 2 Traduction) (in French). p. 19. Bacon, Roger (2016), Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2, University of Pennsylvania Press, p. 383, ISBN 978-1-5128-1406-4...
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  • completes Opus Minus, a summary of Opus Majus, later in the same year. The only source for his date of birth is his statement in the Opus Tertium, written...
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  • Sacrobosco, De Anni Ratione ("On reckoning the years"), c. 1235 Roger Bacon, Opus Majus ("Greater Work"), c. 1267 Richards, E. G. (1998). Mapping Time: The Calendar...
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  • Liber Primus" (in Latin). Thelatinlibrary.com. Retrieved 6 July 2008. The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon, tr. Robert Belle Burke (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania...
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    16, 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2016. Bacon, Roger (2000) [1267]. The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon. translated by Robert Belle Burke. University of Pennsylvania...
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    December 2020. "Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction Series". sparky.rice.edu. The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon, ed. J. H. Bridges, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897, Vol...
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    edition-translation by K. Yamamoto and Ch. Burnett, Leiden, 2000 The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon, ed. J. H. Bridges, Oxford:Clarendon Press, 1897, Vol....
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    lands under the Torrid Zone and Tropic of Capricorn, D'Ailly drew on the Opus Majus, written around the year 1267 English monk and scholar Roger Bacon. With...
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    and in the empirical approach admired by Bacon, particularly in his Opus Majus. During the 12th and 13th century in Europe there was a radical change...
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  • description of a magnifying glass. Bacon also completes Opus Minus, a summary of Opus Majus, later in the same year. Howden Minster in Yorkshire becomes...
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