Doctor Mirabilis

Roger Bacon: heretic, occultist - genius. In a Europe dominated by the narrow doctrines of Catholicism, Bacon was a man whose vision reached far beyond even our own day, a man who risked deadly accusations of heresy and black magic in his search for scientific truth. In this brilliant novel, set against a vividly realized backdrop of thirteenth-century England, Paris and Rome, James Blish recreates the life of this lonely prophet and suspected sorcerer. ● It is rare to find a historical novel that generates so much excitement about ideas --Sunday Telegraph ● Extraordinarily powerful, thoughtful and entirely entertaining... Blish is a master of weaving fact and fantasy inextricably together. --New Scientist