Roger Bacon

Everything new is well forgotten old Quotes from the writings of Roger Bacon who lived in the 13th century

(ORDO NEWS) — Auger Bacon, (Doctor Mirabilis, (“wonderful teacher”), was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who attached great importance to learning by empirical methods. He is regarded, mainly from the 19th century, as one of the earliest European proponents of the modern scientific method. More recent estimates emphasize that he was, in fact, a medieval thinker, and most of his “experimental” knowledge was derived from ancient books. Roger Bacon.…