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THE

'THE GREATER WORK'

original Latin: "OPUS MAJUS"

OF

ROGER BACON

EDITED, WITH

INTRODUCTION AND ANALYTICAL TABLE

BY

JOHN HENRY BRIDGES

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS

FORMER FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE

The term "sometime" used in the original text indicates that Bridges was previously a fellow at Oriel College, Oxford.

'To induce in order to deduce so as to construct'
original French: "Induire pour déduire afin de construire"

AUGUSTE COMTE

'All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one and the same whole, each of which performs its own work, not for itself alone, but for the others'
original Latin: "Omnes scientiae sunt connexae, et mutuis se fovent auxiliis, sicut partes ejusdem totius, quarum quaelibet opus suum peragit non solum pro se sed pro aliis"

ROGER BACON, The Third Work original: "Opus Tertium"

The Greater Work (Opus Majus), Vol. 1

Oxford

THE

'THE GREATER WORK'

OF

ROGER BACON

EDITED, WITH

INTRODUCTION AND ANALYTICAL TABLE

BY

JOHN HENRY BRIDGES

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS

FORMER FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE

IN TWO VOLUMES: VOL. I

OXFORD

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

1897