The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon
Translated by Robert Belle Burke
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CHAPTER I Concerning the properties of this science.
CONCERNING OPpTIcs, IN THREE Parts
The first part treats of matters common to the other two; the second deals mainly with direct vision; the third with reflected and refracted vision. In Part One there are twelve distinctions.
This distinction deals with the properties of this science, with the paris of the mind and brain and with the organ of vision, in five chapters.
Concerning the properties of this science.
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