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New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x1x8. First printing. An exceptional copy. 2003 Trade Paperback. 244 pp. 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…
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The First Scientist: A Life of Roger Bacon Brochura - 2004
por Brian Clegg
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In the early summer of 1292, in the Franciscan friary at Oxford, an old man lay dying.
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- Título The First Scientist: A Life of Roger Bacon
- Autor Brian Clegg
- Encadernação Brochura
- Edição Reprint
- Páginas 244
- Volumes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Data de publicação May 30, 2004
- Ilustrado Sim
- ISBN 9780786713585 / 0786713585
- Peso 0.7 libras (0.32 kg)
- Dimensão 7.86 x 5.22 x 0.78 in. (19.96 x 13.26 x 1.98 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 509.2
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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
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