Directory of Works Resources

Online English-language texts of the writings of Roger Bacon, in whole or in part.

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Despair over Thirteenth Century Learning

http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/bacon1.asp
An excerpt from Bacon's 1271 work, Compendium Studii Philosophiae. Modernized version of the Brewer translation, provided by the Internet Medieval Sourcebook Project.
On Experimental Science

http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/bacon2.asp
An excerpt from Bacon's 1268 work, Opus Tertium. Provided by the Internet Medieval Sourcebook Project.
The Mirror of Alchemy

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/mirror.html
A brief tract attributed to Bacon, here in an English edition first published in 1597.
Tract on the Tincture and Oil of Antimony

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/rbacon2.html
A 1985 translation by Kjell Hellesoe of this alchemical treatise by Bacon.

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