The Common Principles of Natural Philosophy
Opera hactenus inedita, Fasciculus 02
Latin
Roger Bacon c. 1260-1270 · published 1909
156 pages
First Complete Translation
Only partial translations or excerpts exist. This is the first complete English translation.
The work 'The Common Principles of Natural Philosophy' is the English title for Roger Bacon's 'Communia Naturalium'. While scholarly interest in Bacon is high and some of his works (like 'Opus Majus' and 'De multiplicatione specierum') have been translated, no complete English translation of the 'Communia Naturalium' exists. It remains a significant, untranslated Latin text in the Baconian corpus.
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Centuries before the Scientific Revolution, Roger Bacon mapped the blueprint for modern inquiry, bridging the gap between Aristotelian logic and the power of empirical proof. Discover a universe where geometry governs the path of light, and the internal 'desire' of matter drives the very engine of creation.
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