Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Bacon , Roger and Bridges , John Henry (2010-07-01), The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon, Cambridge Univ Pr, Retrieved on 2011-12-14Source Material [books.google.com]
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All Sciences are Connected
Omnes scientiae sunt connexae et fovent auxiliis sicut partes ejusdem totius, quarum quaelibet opus suum peragit non propter se sed pro aliis.
All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole, each doing its own work, not for itself alone, but for the other parts; as the eye guides the body and the foot sustains it and leads it from place to place. Folksonomies: science cross-pollination
Folksonomies: science cross-pollination
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notesNo science works alone, but relies on other sciences to understand the world.
14 DEC 2011
The Benefits of Alchemy
But there is another alchemy, operative and practical, which teaches how to make the noble metals and colours and many other things better and more abundantly by art than they are made in nature. And science of this kind is greater than all those preceding because it produces greater utilities. For not only can it yield wealth and very many other things for the public welfare, but it also teaches how to discover such things as are capable of prolonging human life for much longer periods than ... 1 notes
notesAlchemy produces medicines and ways to produce useful compounds. It's not, as Bacon argues, just the frivolity.
