This man, who wrote "he who knows not mathematics cannot know any other sciences," collected his thought in an Opus Major, Opus Minor, and Opus Tertium.
In one work, this man enumerated the four causes of human ignorance - unworthy authority, the influence of habit, popular prejudice, and false conceit of our own wisdom, which he claimed was most harmful to pursuit of truth. He was imprisoned on orders of Jerome of Ascoli, the general of the Franciscans, and upon his release he authored his final work, a Compendium of Theological Studies. He circumvented restrictions on publishing by corresponding with Guy de Foulques, who later became Pope Clement IV. John Erskine commemorated his 700th birthday in a play entitled A Pageant of the 13th Century. This man, who wrote "he who knows not mathematics cannot know any other sciences," collected his thought in an Opus Major, Opus Minor, and Opus Tertium. FTP, name this philosopher called "Doctor Mirabilis," who championed the idea of experimental science.
In one work, this man enumerated the four causes of human ignorance - unworthy authority, the influence of habit, popular prejudice, and false conceit of our own wisdom, which he claimed was most harmful to pursuit of truth.
{Roger Bacon}