David C. Lindberg, “On the Applicability of Mathematics to Nature: Roger Bacon and his Predecessors,”The British Journal for the History of Science15 (1982): 3–25. Lindberg simply asserts this as the case: “It is clear, in any case, from Bacon’s bitter attacks on Albert, that Baco...
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