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)
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1 Michael Bacon and Simon Caulfield from Place Kangaroo Point negotiated the sale.
2 A rep for Bacon did not immediately return a request for comment.
3 I was with Bacon in '76, in the fray with the Susquehannocks.
4 Yes, I loved the original and Kevin Bacon , especially being a dancer.
5 Beulah fancied him a Solon in sagacity, and a Bacon in wisdom.
1 Dürer was his parallel and Roger Bacon - whom the Franciscans silenced-ofhis kindred.
2 We see them in Robert Grostete, in Roger Bacon , and eventually in Spinoza.
3 To this effect is the criticism of Roger Bacon in 1292:
4 Then it was taken up in succession by Roger Bacon , Vitellio, and Kepler.
5 As representative of this scientific interest we may take the Englishman, Roger Bacon .
6 Just as striking quotations on this subject might be made from Roger Bacon .
7 Surely we ought to let off fireworks on Roger Bacon 's birthday.
8 Or, shall we study magical philosophy with Roger Bacon - the Friar , the Admirable Doctor?
9 The memory of Roger Bacon has received but scant justice.
10 They were Albertus Magnus, the teacher of the other two, Thomas Aquinas and Roger Bacon .
11 This anachronistic thinker was the English monk, Roger Bacon .
12 During his reign gunpowder was discovered by Roger Bacon , whereby Guy Fawkes was made possible.
13 The weakness of the method was recognized by Roger Bacon so early as the thirteenth century.
14 The thirteenth century produced Thomas Aquinas, and Johannes Duns Scotus, and William Occam, and Roger Bacon .
15 What Roger Bacon only suggested I shall accomplish!
16 Religious Reformation; the Friars, 1221; Roger Bacon .
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