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... Roger Bacon's experimental precepts and his special researches in optics have long been common- place knowledge ; indeed , like the scientific vision of his Elizabethan namesake they have been somewhat overrated : their significance ...
... Roger Bacon's experimental precepts and his special researches in optics have long been common- place knowledge ; indeed , like the scientific vision of his Elizabethan namesake they have been somewhat overrated : their significance ...
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... Roger Bacon , was a monk ; so , again , was Michael Stifel , who in 1544 widened the use of symbols in algebraic equations ; the monks stood high in the roll of mechanics and inventors . The spiritual routine of the monastery , if it ...
... Roger Bacon , was a monk ; so , again , was Michael Stifel , who in 1544 widened the use of symbols in algebraic equations ; the monks stood high in the roll of mechanics and inventors . The spiritual routine of the monastery , if it ...
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... Roger Bacon , " some of the wonderful works of art and nature in which there is nothing of magic and which magic could not perform . Instruments may be made by which the largest ships , with only one man guiding them , will be carried ...
... Roger Bacon , " some of the wonderful works of art and nature in which there is nothing of magic and which magic could not perform . Instruments may be made by which the largest ships , with only one man guiding them , will be carried ...
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Space Distance Movement | 3 |
The Mechanical Universe | 9 |
Practical Anticipations | 55 |
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