Roger Bacon

Type Figure Region England Time c. 1219–1292 Also known as Roger Bacon、Doctor Mirabilis、奇迹博士

Roger Bacon (c. 1219–1292), a 13th-century English Franciscan scholar born in Ilchester, educated at Oxford and Paris, pioneer of experimental method…

Timeline

1221–1230Ilchester · SomersetRoger Bacon was born c. 1219 in Ilchester, receiving early Latin and ecclesiastical education in England in the 1220s, laying the foundation for his later studies at Oxford.
c. 1231–1247Oxford · OxfordshireRoger Bacon studied and taught at the University of Oxford, delving into Aristotelian philosophy, mathematics and optics, beginning to form a scholarly orientation valuing empirical observation.
c. 1257–1292Oxford · EnglandIn the 1250s Roger Bacon joined the Franciscan Order, continuing research in optics, alchemy and linguistics, writing the Opus Majus, Opus Minus and others, advocating experimental verification of natural phenomena.

Sources

Roger Bacon https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/roger-bacon/
Roger Bacon and the Origins of Perspectiva in the Thirteenth Century — David C. Lindberg (1996)