Roger Bacon on the Web: Primary Sources

Despair over Thirteenth Century Learning
From Compendium Studii Philosophiae, appearing in C.G. Coulton, ed, Life in the Middle Ages, (New York: Macmillan, c.1910), Vol 2, 55-62, and online at Paul Halsall's Medieval Sourcebook.

On Experimental Science, 1268
Modern translation online at Paul Halsall's Medieval Sourcebook.

Tract on the Tincture and Oil of Antimony
"On the true and right Preparation of Stibium to heal human weaknesses and illnesses therewith, and to improve the imperfect metals." Translated by Kjell Hellesoe in 1985 and online at the Alchemy Virtual Library.

 

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