{"product_id":"the-first-scientist-a-life-of-roger-bacon-9780786713585","title":"The First Scientist: A Life of Roger Bacon","description":"\u003cp\u003eLegend may have transformed the thirteenth-century English friar Roger Bacon into the Faust-like sorcerer Doctor Mirabilis  but he stands today in high regard as Europes first great pioneer in the field of science. Bypassing the vicissitudes of Bacons reputation  this definitive new biography by science writer Brian Clegg places the medieval monastic firmly in the turbulent and contentious intellectual atmosphere of his day. It also finds in Bacons attempt to reconcile  or at least acknowledge  the variant methods and means of science and theology a quest that places him well ahead of his intellectual times. For Bacon brought to his inquiry into the nature of things his gifts not only as a lucid observer of natural phenomena  rigorous experimenter  empirical thinker  and gifted mathematician but as a theologian and philosopher as well. In his search for truth he would  like Galileo  suffer imprisonment rather than sacrifice his intellectual integrity. From Bacons popularity as a teacher at Oxford and Paris  through his innovations in calendar reform  his experiments in optics  his designs for a flying machine  and  most famously  his development of the principle of inductive experimental science  this illuminative volume unfolds the story of a brilliant career.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280442548277,"sku":"ByrdShop_0786713585","price":223.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780786713585.jpg?v=1780636345","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-first-scientist-a-life-of-roger-bacon-9780786713585","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}