The Mirror of Alchemy and Tract on the Tincture and Oil of Antimony (The Occult Sceince of Magick) Annotated the Author's biography, life and works

The Mirror of Alchemy and Tract on the Tincture and Oil of Antimony (The Occult Sceince of Magick) by Roger Bacon

**This edition is combine 2 books of Roger Bacon.

BACON, ROGER

byname DOCTOR MIRABILIS (Latin: "Wonderful Teacher") (b. c. 1220, Ilchester, Somerset, or Bisley, Gloucester?, Eng.--d. 1292, Oxford?), English Franciscan philosopher and educational reformer who was a major medieval proponent of experimental science. Bacon studied mathematics, astronomy, optics, alchemy, and languages. He was the first European to describe in detail the process of making gunpowder, and he proposed flying machines and motorized ships and carriages. Bacon (as he himself complacently remarked) displayed a prodigious energy and zeal in the pursuit of experimental science; indeed, his studies were talked about everywhere and eventually won him a place in popular literature as a kind of wonder worker. Bacon therefore represents a historically precocious expression of the empirical spirit of experimental science, even though his actual practice of it seems to have been exaggerated.