Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2 / / Roger Bacon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Bacon, Roger,
• TeilnehmendeR: Burke, Robert Belle
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1928
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (878 p.) :; 8 illus.

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.

Table of 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