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- 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)
How To Use Roger Bacon In A Sentence
- A native of England, Roger Bacon was a friar and scholar in many academic areas, including mathematics, early chemistry and optics.
- the magnifying glass was invented by Roger Bacon in 1250
- His treatise Paulina de recta Paschae celebratione, deeply indebted to Roger Bacon's Opus majus of 1267, compelled his friend Copernicus to expand research on the sun and moon, resulting in the development of the heliocentric system. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
- Roger Bacon is said to have forged a brazen head which spoke, and Albertus Magnus to have had an androides, which acted as doorkeeper, and was broken to pieces by Aquinas. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
- A slightly odd Who novel, a bit out of joint with itself: the Fourth Doctor, travelling companionless, meets with Nyssa, years after she has left Terminus, and sets off to track down a time anomaly centred around Roger Bacon in the year 1278. August Books 1) To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
