Doctor Mirabilis

About “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 his own day, risking deadly accusations of heresy and black magic in his search for scientific truth. Set against a backdrop of thirteenth-century England, Paris, and Rome, this novel recreates the life of this lonely prophet and suspected sorcerer. A 1964 novel by James Blish.