Editing Roger Bacon (section)

===''Secret of Secrets''===
{{main|Secretum Secretorum}}
Bacon attributed the ''Secret of Secrets'' (''{{lang|la|Secretum Secretorum}}''), the Islamic "Mirror of Princes" ({{langx|ar|Sirr al-ʿasrar}}<!--sic-->), to [[Aristotle]], thinking that he had composed it for [[Alexander the Great]]. Bacon produced an edition of [[Philip of Tripoli]]'s Latin translation, complete with his own introduction and notes; and his writings of the 1260s and 1270s cite it far more than his contemporaries did. This led [[Stewart C. Easton|Easton]]{{sfnp|Easton|1952}} and others, including [[Robert Steele (medievalist)|Robert Steele]],{{sfnp|Williams|1997}} to argue that the text spurred Bacon's own transformation into an experimentalist. (Bacon never described such a decisive impact himself.){{sfnp|Williams|1997}} The dating of Bacon's edition of the ''Secret of Secrets'' is a key piece of evidence in the debate, with those arguing for a greater impact giving it an earlier date;{{sfnp|Williams|1997}} but it certainly influenced the elder Bacon's conception of the political aspects of his work in the sciences.{{sfnp|''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy''|2013|loc=§2}}