The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 2010-07-01
- Publisher
- Cambridge Univ Pr
- Retrieved
- Dec 14, 2011
- ISBN
- GsNYidfG85
2 memes from this reference
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…
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…