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Thomas Bungay or de Bungeye O. F. M. (x.1240-c.1295) was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who was an early European investigator of science because of his interest in the philosopher Aristotle. Thomas Bungay's only extant philosophical work is his Commentary on Aristotle's De Caelo. The manuscript is MS509 located in the library of Gonville and Caius College of the University of Cambridge. Thomas was educated at Oxford and became regent master both at Oxford (1270-1272) and at Cambridge (1282-1283). He was the provincial superior of the English province of the Order of Friar Minors from 1272-1275. His name is associated with Roger Bacon who was a contemporary of Thomas Bungay and a philsopher also interested in the scientifc method. Robert Greene wrote a comedy entitled the Honourable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay.