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Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2 / Roger Bacon.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1928Description: 1 online resource (878 p.) : 8 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781512809992
  • 9781512814064
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 189 B12op
LOC classification:
  • B765.B23 O3 1928
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part One: Causes of Error -- Part Two: Philosophy -- Part Three: Study of Tongues -- First Distinction -- Second Distinction -- Third Distinction -- Fourth Distinction -- First Distinction -- Second Distinction -- Third Distinction -- Fourth Distinction -- Fifth Distinction -- Sixth Distinction -- Seventh Distinction -- Eighth Distinction -- Ninth Distinction -- Tenth Distinction -- Second Part of Perspective -- Part Three of Perspective -- Part Six: Experimental Science -- Part Seven: Moral Philosophy -- Index
Summary: The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon (c.1214-92) is one of the most influential scientific and philosophical texts of its age and arguably the high point of medieval knowledge of the physical sciences. In the work Bacon makes a plea for the reform of education, emphasizing the rightful role of the sciences in the university curriculum and the interdependence of the various disciplines.Prepared in 1267 at the request of Pope Clement IV, the treatise is a collection of ideas, an encyclopedia of knowledge embracing all science, including language, logic, optics, mathematics, moral philosophy, and physics.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781512814064

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part One: Causes of Error -- Part Two: Philosophy -- Part Three: Study of Tongues -- First Distinction -- Second Distinction -- Third Distinction -- Fourth Distinction -- First Distinction -- Second Distinction -- Third Distinction -- Fourth Distinction -- Fifth Distinction -- Sixth Distinction -- Seventh Distinction -- Eighth Distinction -- Ninth Distinction -- Tenth Distinction -- Second Part of Perspective -- Part Three of Perspective -- Part Six: Experimental Science -- Part Seven: Moral Philosophy -- Index

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The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon (c.1214-92) is one of the most influential scientific and philosophical texts of its age and arguably the high point of medieval knowledge of the physical sciences. In the work Bacon makes a plea for the reform of education, emphasizing the rightful role of the sciences in the university curriculum and the interdependence of the various disciplines.Prepared in 1267 at the request of Pope Clement IV, the treatise is a collection of ideas, an encyclopedia of knowledge embracing all science, including language, logic, optics, mathematics, moral philosophy, and physics.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)

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