On Experimental Science - An excerpt from Bacon's 1268 work, Opus Tertium. Provided by the Internet Medieval Sourcebook Project. - http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/bacon2.html
Despair over Thirteenth Century Learning - An excerpt from Bacon's 1271 work, Compendium Studii Philosophiae. Modernized version of the Brewer translation, provided by the Internet Medieval Sourcebook Project. - http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/bacon1.html
The Mirror of Alchemy - A brief tract attributed to Bacon, here in an English edition first published in 1597. - http://www.levity.com/alchemy/mirror.html