The Philosophy of Roger Bacon
Philosophia Baconis (MS. Digby 76, annotated by John Dee)
Roger Bacon; annotations by John Dee
Latin
c. 1270
246 pages
First Translation
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Bodleian Library MS. Digby 76 is a composite manuscript containing several medieval treatises. While Thomas Bradwardine's 'De proportionibus' was translated by H. Lamar Crosby in 1955 and excerpts of Al-Farabi/Gundissalinus exist, the major Roger Bacon texts in this codex—specifically the 'Compendium studii philosophiae' and 'Communia naturalium'—have no complete English translations. No publication exists that translates the contents of this specific manuscript as a unified volume.
Related translations found:
Thomas of Bradwardine, His Tractatus de Proportionibus: Its Significance for the Development of Mathematical Physics, trans. H. Lamar Crosby, Jr. (1955) [partial]
Medieval Political Philosophy (contains Al-Farabi's De scientiis), trans. Muhsin Mahdi (1963) [excerpts]
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Step into the intellectual laboratory of Roger Bacon, the 13th-century 'Doctor Mirabilis,' in a manuscript enriched by the annotations of Elizabethan magus John Dee. This text is a revolutionary manifesto for the 'utility of mathematics,' arguing that without geometry, the natural philosopher is doomed to wander in ignorance.
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