HIST-338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pope Clement Iv
20 Nov 2020
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• In this way Bacon developed the principles for creating the first rudimentary telescope
and the thermometer;
he also determined the chemical composition of gunpowder.
He laid out two hundred years before Leonardo da Vinci schematic designs for airplanes
automobiles and motorized boats.
Real controlled experiments in the modern sense were still a thing of the future.
Bacon advanced the frontiers of knowledge in dramatic ways.
The more he learned the greater the scorn he heaped on others especially theologians .
The Franciscans grew worried since they feared reprisals from the theologians who winced
under Bacon’s criticism.
at least one of Bacon’s theories was troubling.
• Bacon loved science and believed it held the key to understanding the cosmos.
He maintained in fact although he never used this terminology that there was a single master
code in control of the universe
a genuine physical analog to what priests in the pulpit constantly referred to as “God’s plan.”
A properly trained scientist like himself Bacon insisted but not the “idiot jackasses” he saw all
around him could crack that code and understand the universe’s deepest secrets.
He was convinced that such a discovery was God’s intent for mankind
he also came to believe that scientific knowledge could prove to be dangerous if it fell into the
wrong hands;
• Bacon ultimately concluded that Antichrist himself when he appeared would be a
scientist.
It is through science evilly employed that the work of Satan will be done.
There was nothing intrinsically heretical in such an idea
since it was the Franciscan order that was so closely associated in people’s minds with scientific
research it did not seem wise to Bacon’s superiors to let him continue his work.
Document Summary
In this way bacon developed the principles for creating the first rudimentary telescope and the thermometer; he also determined the chemical composition of gunpowder. He laid out two hundred years before leonardo da vinci schematic designs for airplanes automobiles and motorized boats. Real controlled experiments in the modern sense were still a thing of the future. Bacon advanced the frontiers of knowledge in dramatic ways. The more he learned the greater the scorn he heaped on others especially theologians . The franciscans grew worried since they feared reprisals from the theologians who winced under bacon"s criticism. at least one of bacon"s theories was troubling: bacon loved science and believed it held the key to understanding the cosmos. He maintained in fact although he never used this terminology that there was a single master code in control of the universe a genuine physical analog to what priests in the pulpit constantly referred to as god"s plan.
