Roger Bacon · Science
Bacon’s conviction, argued in Part IV of the <em>Opus Majus</em>, that all natural knowledge rests on mathematics - that without geometry and number the sciences and the world cannot be understood - and his physics of ‘the multiplication of species,’ in which every natural power spreads through space along geometrical lines.
You learned that Bacon called mathematics ‘the gate and key of the sciences’ and argued that all the other sciences and the things of this world depend on it, grounding this in his doctrine of the ‘multiplication of species’ - the geometrical spreading of natural powers like light. Explain why…
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