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 == Astrology == 
 This is actually true at least in part, I'm making a note here to dig a citation for it.    

 == Quote from Mayer == 
 A few outstanding minds like Roger Bacon stood out, but they were regarded with great suspicion by the Church.  Small wonder that Bacon had vast contempt for the prevailing knowledge of his time and he thought that he could learn more from the man in the street than from renowned scholars.  He felt that the only road to truth lay in experimentation, not in abstract statements about God, the soul, and angels.  While predicting the invention of the airplane, the submarine, and the motor car, he urged also the study of mathematics to give a quantitative basis to science.  Still he was suffering from the limitations of his time.  His main purpose was to substantiate the truth of the Bible and he believed in experimental science to ward off the onslaughts of the Anti-Christ 
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 : Okay, thanks. It's quite difficult to consider Mayer as RS about Bacon, but at least we know he emitted that opinion.    

 == Europe - or just the west? == 
 The article contains the following: 
 : he began to lecture at the university of Paris, then the centre of intellectual life in Europe. 
 Should this not be 'western' Europe as intellectual life continued in Constantinople despite the relative 'dark ages' of the west    

 == Albertus Magnus and the ""Unnamed doctor"" == 
 This article accepts as fact the assertion that the unnamed Doctor at Paris attacked in the Opus Minus and Opus Tertium is Albertus Magnus.  It doesn't even mention that the attacks are on an unnamed person widely thought to be Albertus (although many who think so may be equally ignorant of the controversy).  This identification is still a matter of debate, which should be at least mentioned on the page.  I will add specific references, pro and con, to this page later.     
 :The notion that Bacon was hostile to Albertus is well accepted in recent historical literature; it is clear that Bacon was hostile to an unnamed master and Albertus is the contemporary who best fits this description in a number of ways.  In his late Compendium studii philosophae Bacon explicitly criticizes the teachings of ""the boys among the students of the two orders like Albert and Thomas, and others, who enter the orders when for the most part they are twenty years of age and less.""  Some earlier studies consider Bacon's unnamed master was Thomas Aquinas rather than Albertus Magnus.  Of the authors cited, Hackett and Easton have both presented detailed arguments identifying Albertus as Bacon's target and LeMay accepts this position. 
 :As always, if you can find a reliable source identifying someone else as Bacon's target, feel free to edit.     
 ::So we have two figures, one explicitly named and one unnamed and only allusively identified (such that some informed consensus about a candidate has only been established in the last few decades), but a strong case has to be made for treating those two as qualitatively different?  Alternative candidates have to be presented before a difference in the level of certainty can even be admitted? Boggling!  Even disregarding the fact that you mention one previously considered candidate yourself, that's a puzzling standard to set.     
 :::This discussion isn't very productive. The recent work of Easton (1952) and Hackett (1980) supercedes older historiography. Since Easton's study in 1952 there's been a historical consensus that Bacon opposed what he saw as the poor preparation of Albertus and those like him who taught theology without having studied natural philosophy in the arts curriculum. 
 :::We've both said our piece. If you want to edit the article to provide other well sourced interpretations of the ""unnamed master"", do so. Then we'll have a concrete alternative to consider.     
 ::::Nope. Your piece was completely out of line. He's absolutely right th