The Opus maius: A Plea for Reform
Meagan S. Allen
1. Roger Bacon’s Scientia Experimentalis: A Review of Bacon’s diverse Treatises
Jeremiah Hackett
2. The Division of the Sciences in Opus maius IV, 1, 2: Roger Bacon’s Sources and Their Transformation
Alexander Fidora
3. The Science of Weights: Jordan of Nemore’s Influence on Roger Bacon’s Scientific Method
Yael Kedar
4. Roger Bacon and John Pecham on the Nature and Role of Arithmetic
Aurélien Robert
5. On Vision: Roger Bacon’s Opus maius (V.1–2) from the perspective of Alhazen’s Optics (I–II)
Nader El-Bizri
6. Bacon on Mathematics, Perspectiva, and Astrology: The ‘Unnamed Master’ Revisited
H. Darrel Rutkin
7. Knowability and Power of Ars: Roger Bacon’s Utopian Science as Anti-Magic
Nicolas Weill-Parot
8. Alchemy and Pharmacology in the Opus maius
Meagan S. Allen
9. Roger Bacon and Secrecy: Alchemical Techniques of Deception and the Doctor Mirabilis
William R. Newman
Biography
Meagan S. Allen is a historian of science, specializing in the medical alchemy of the later Middle Ages. Her research interests lie at the intersection of alchemy, pharmacology, and theology, especially in the writings of the thirteenth-century polymath Roger Bacon. She is the author of Roger Bacon and the Incorruptible Human: Alchemy, Pharmacology, and the Desire to Prolong Life (2023), which examines Bacon’s desire to use alchemy to create a medicine that would extend human life by centuries. Allen is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Science and Technology at Johns Hopkins University, USA.
