Which 13th century philosopher, linguist, empirical scientist, writer and Franciscan Friar known as Doctor Mirabilis, was known for his mediaeval Latin work "Opus Major"?
Roger Bacon The "Opus Major" is described as one of the most influential scientific and philosophical texts of its age and arguably the high point of medieval knowledge of the physical sciences.
Which 17th century French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer showed, by using geometric construction and the law of refraction, that the angular radius of a rainbow is 42 degrees?
The game of Roulette was created by which mathematician, physicist, and Catholic philosopher in the 17th century in his search for a perpetual motion machine?
A movement whose followers were known derisively as Lollards centred on the views of which priest, philosopher and theologian and his colleagues?
Gregor Johann Mendel, a 19th Century Augustinian priest and scientist, gained posthumous fame as the figurehead of which new science for his study of pea plants?
