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Roger Bacon on Mathematics

1220–1292 England

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For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Opus majus: A translation by Robert Belle Burke. Vol 1 (1962)

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics...

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