The Sciences of Roger Bacon’s Opus Maius
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The Sciences of Roger Bacon’s Opus Maius

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The Sciences of Roger Bacon’s Opus Maius

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Through an examination of the Opus maius, Roger Bacon's great scientific work of 1267, this book offers insight into Bacon's understanding of the role of science in society and the study and practice of science in the later Middle Ages.

Written at the request of Pope Clement IV (d. 1268), the Opus maius contains English Franciscan and polymath Roger Bacon's plans for educational and ecclesiastical reform through the study of arts and sciences, which Bacon saw as having been neglected in the curricula of the major European universities. In writing the Opus maius, Bacon wanted to demonstrate that not only were the sciences a solid foundation for learning theology, but they could also improve society and help mankind attain salvation. This volume contains nine essays on the sciences Bacon thought were most important in this scheme, including optics, mathematics, astronomy, alchemy, medicine, and experimental science. Each provides a focused examination of the individual sciences, demonstrating how Bacon understood and practised them, as well as how he envisioned they would fit together into his larger programme of scientific reform.

This thought-provoking collection will be a valuable resource to historians of science, medicine, and philosophy, as well as those in medieval and premodern studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Contributors
  8. The Opus maius: A Plea for Reform
  9. 1 Roger Bacon’s Scientia Experimentalis: A Review of Bacon’s Diverse Treatises
  10. 2 The Division of the Sciences in Opus maius Part IV, 1, 2: Roger Bacon’s Sources and Their Transformation
  11. 3 The Science of Weights: Jordan of Nemore’s Influence on Roger Bacon’s Scientific Method
  12. 4 Roger Bacon and John Pecham on Arithmetic
  13. 5 On Vision: Roger Bacon’s Opus maius (V.1–2) from the Perspective of Alhazen’s Optics (I–II)
  14. 6 Bacon on Mathematics, Perspectiva, and Astrology: The “Unnamed Master” Revisited
  15. 7 Knowability and Power of Ars: Roger Bacon’s Utopian Science as Anti-Magic
  16. 8 Alchemy and Pharmacology in the Opus maius
  17. 9 Roger Bacon and Secrecy: Alchemical Techniques of Deception and the Doctor Mirabilis
  18. Index