Achievements of Roger Bacon
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Roger Bacon is a very good teacher in chemistry
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and also he got 53 awards
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Roger Bacon became a master at Oxford. He gave lectures in the faculty of arts and they were mainly about Aristotelian and pseudo-Aristotelian treatises.
His next appointment was at the Paris University and he joined it somewhere between 1237 and 1245. Here he talked about Aristotelian Corpus (Compilation of Aristotle’s work) which included physics, meta-physics and the pseudo-Aristotelian De Vegetabilibus and the De Causis.
In 1247, he was inspired by the great scholar Robert Grosseteste and he began investing his time and money in acquiring secret books, training assistants, meeting savants and constructing instruments. He ardently researched optics, alchemy, astronomy and linguistics.
With some certainty it can be stated that he became a friar in the Franciscan Order in 1256 and in 1260, Master General Bonaventure issued a decree that prohibited friars from publishing books without the Order’s prior approval.
Bonaventure and Bacon remained much at odds due to their individual beliefs. Bonaventure believed that astrology was helpful in only predicting the things solely dependent on movement of heavenly bodies and that base metals couldn’t be converted into gold/silver; Bacon differed on both accounts.
In order to bypass the Order’s decree he contacted Cardinal Guy le Gros de Foulques, who became Pope Clement IV in 1265. The Pope issued a papal mandate asking Bacon for his philosophical writings and his view on the possibility of philosophy in theology.
In reply Roger Bacon sent his ‘Opus Majus’, ‘Opus Minus’ and ‘De Multiplicatione Specierum’. In his books he mentioned how science and Aristotle’s philosophy could be applied in establishing a new way of learning, which would also bring about the welfare of the Church.
His luck ran out when the Pope passed away in 1268 and left no official review or opinion on his works.
His next writings were ‘Communnia Naturalium’, ‘Communia Mathematica’ and ‘Compendium Studii Philosophie’. The Order put him under house arrest sometime between 1277 and 1279 on the accounts of his beliefs in alchemy and the general disregard for other innovators.
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