Roger Bacon

Where did science begin? The First Scientist takes us back to thirteenth-century Europe, to the early years of the great universities, where learning was enlivened with the danger of mob violence and a terrifyingly repressive religious censorship. Roger Bacon, a humble and devout English friar, seems an unlikely figure to challenge the orthodoxy of his day -- yet this unworldly man risked his life to establish the basis for true scientific knowledge.

Brian Clegg read Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specializing in Experimental Physics, and did a second MA in Operational Research. He now runs a creative consultancy and contributes to many publications

Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Preface	p. 1
Dust Motes	p. 5
Scholar!	p. 17
The Secret of Secrets	p. 35
The Order	p. 51
Time and the Antichrist	p. 73
Opus majus	p. 89
De profundis	p. 113
Into the Light	p. 145
The Smokescreen	p. 165
Magister	p. 185
Notes and References	p. 207
Bibliography	p. 215
Bacon's Books	p. 221
Extract from The Famous Historie of Fryer Bacon	p. 225
Extracts from the Opus majus	p. 229
Index	p. 237
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