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empiricism, and is thought of as one of the earliest advocates of the modern scientific method. Long credited with the invention of gun powder because a recipe was found in his writings
Reading
Three of his most important works were written for Pope Clement IV in one year (1267–68)—the Opus majus (tr. 1928), the Opus minor, and the Opus tertium.
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Commentaries
A. G. Little, ed., Roger Bacon Essays (1914, repr. 1972); biography by F. Winthrop Woodruff (1938); studies by T. Crowley (1950) and S. C. Easton (1952, repr. 1971).