Dominican theologian and English physicist born in Stradbroke, County of Suffolk, considered the initiator of naturalism at Oxford, the founder of the Franciscan School of Oxford. Educated by the Benedictines of the Abbey of Eye, he studied at Oxford and Paris and was appointed Master Regent and Chancellor of Oxford University (1208). He was ordained bishop of Lincoln (1235), but was later excommunicated by Pope Innocent IV for disagreeing with his preaching and died in Lincoln.
Among his main disciples was Roger Bacon (1214-1292), an eminent figure in the transition to the Renaissance and a pioneer in structuring the experimental method, as a way of validating the experience and considered the greatest scientist of his time, one of the greatest exponents of what historians of philosophy call late scholasticism, and a forerunner of modern empiricism English. He wrote Commentarii, a collection of commentaries on theological currents of the time, De unica forma omnium, De potentia et actu, De veritate propositionis, De scientia Dei and De libero arbitrio.
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