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Roger Bacon   /rˈɑdʒər bˈeɪkən/   Listen
Roger Bacon

noun
1.
English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292).  Synonym: Bacon.






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"Roger Bacon" Quotes from Famous Books



... itself, over and over again, the reason strove to break loose from its fetters. Abelard, in the twelfth century, tried to prove that the interminable dispute about entities and words was founded on a misapprehension. Roger Bacon, at the beginning of the thirteenth century, anticipated modern science, and proclaimed that man, by use of nature, can do all things. Joachim of Flora, intermediate between the two, drank one drop of the cup of prophecy offered to his lips, and cried that "the gospel of the Father ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various

... in the invention he has assigned to his philosopher (Adam Warner), has too boldly assumed the possibility of a conception so much in advance of the time, they who have examined such of the works of Roger Bacon as are yet given to the world can best decide; but the assumption in itself belongs strictly to the most acknowledged prerogatives of Fiction; and the true and important question will obviously be, not whether Adam Warner could ...
— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton



Words linked to "Roger Bacon" :   bacon, monastic, scientist, monk



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