Roger Bacon
c. 1214–92
Philosopher and Franciscan friar. Studied and lectured at the universities of Oxford and Paris; entered the Franciscan order, c. 1257. Emphasised the study of nature through empirical methods and re-interpreted Aristotelian and later pseudo-Aristotelian works in the scholastic tradition, but seen by nineteenth-century writers as a champion of the modern, experimental scientific method.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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