Roger Bacon's Scientia Experimentalis as Technological Manipulation of Nature in Premodern Europe

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Abstract Summary
Roger Bacon's Scientia experimentalis is driven by a new apocalyptic Christian vision of reform and renovation on earth. It involves the manipulation of light and sight in the production of new technologies of war. It involves a new vision of Chemistry/ Alchemy in the renovation of the human body. Since the body is closely united to the intellectual soul, in a non-Platonic manner, the material, physical world is taken up and transformed in a renewed human world in its return to the divine. This Re-creation of life is the reditus side of the original creation.
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HSS891
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Medieval
Self-Designated Keywords :
Theology, alchemy, Roger Bacon, Experimental science, Creation
University of South Carolina

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