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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Da Capo Pr
Publication date
June 19, 2004
Pages
244
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780786713585
ISBN-10
0786713585
Dimensions
1 by 5.25 by 8 in.
Weight
0.70 lbs.
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Out of Print
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$14.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
The first comprehensive biography of the medieval monk chronicles the life and accomplishments of Roger Bacon, whose experiments helped bring Europe out of the Middle Ages by pioneering an inductive approach to experimental science. Reprint.
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Legend may have transformed the thirteenth-century English friar Roger Bacon into the Faust-like sorcerer Doctor Mirabilis, but he stands today in high regard as Europe's first great pioneer in the field of science. Bypassing the vicissitudes of Bacon's reputation, this definitive new biography by science writer Brian Clegg places the medieval monastic firmly in the turbulent and contentious intellectual atmosphere of his day. It also finds in Bacon's attempt to reconcile, or at least acknowledge, the variant methods and means of science and theology a quest that places him well ahead of his intellectual times. For Bacon brought to his inquiry into the nature of things his gifts not only as a lucid observer of natural phenomena, rigorous experimenter, empirical thinker, and gifted mathematician but as a theologian and philosopher as well. In his search for truth he would, like Galileo, suffer imprisonment rather than sacrifice his intellectual integrity. From Bacon's popularity as a teacher at Oxford and Paris, through his innovations in calendar reform, his experiments in optics, his designs for a flying machine, and, most famously, his development of the principle of inductive experimental science, this illuminative volume unfolds the story of a brilliant career.
Editions
Hardcover
from Da Capo Pr (February 17, 2003)
9780786711161 | details & prices | 288 pages | 6.00 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $26.00
About: Chronicles the life and accomplishments of Roger Bacon, the medieval monk whose experiments helped bring Europe out of the Middle Ages by pioneering an inductive approach to experimental science.
About: Chronicles the life and accomplishments of Roger Bacon, the medieval monk whose experiments helped bring Europe out of the Middle Ages by pioneering an inductive approach to experimental science.
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Da Capo Pr (June 19, 2004)
9780786713585 | details & prices | 244 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $14.00
About: Chronicles the life and accomplishments of Roger Bacon, the medieval monk whose experiments helped bring Europe out of the Middle Ages by pioneering an inductive approach to experimental science.
About: Chronicles the life and accomplishments of Roger Bacon, the medieval monk whose experiments helped bring Europe out of the Middle Ages by pioneering an inductive approach to experimental science.
Prebinding
Reprint edition from Paw Prints (October 1, 2008)
9781435298750 | details & prices | 244 pages | 5.25 × 7.60 × 1.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $23.00
About: The First Scientist takes us back to thirteenth-century Europe, to the early years of the great universities, where learning was spiced with the danger of mob violence and a terrifyingly repressive religious censorship.
About: The First Scientist takes us back to thirteenth-century Europe, to the early years of the great universities, where learning was spiced with the danger of mob violence and a terrifyingly repressive religious censorship.
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