Despair over Thirteenth Century Learning
An excerpt from Bacon's 1271 work, Compendium Studii Philosophiae. Modernized version of the Brewer translation, provided by the Internet Medieval Sourcebook Project.
On Experimental Science
An excerpt from Bacon's 1268 work, Opus Tertium. Provided by the Internet Medieval Sourcebook Project.
The Mirror of Alchemy
A brief tract attributed to Bacon, here in an English edition first published in 1597.
Tract on the Tincture and Oil of Antimony
A 1985 translation by Kjell Hellesoe of this alchemical treatise by Bacon.