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	Roger Bacon
		Roger Bacon (1214-1294), also known as Doctor Mirabilis (Latin: "wonderful teacher"), was an English philosopher who placed considerable emphasis on empiricism, and is thought of as one of the earliest advocates of the modern scientific method.
		Roger Bacon studied at Oxford, lectured on Aristotle and later became a Franciscan friar and a professor at Oxford.
		Bacon's abilities were soon recognised, and he enjoyed the friendship of such eminent men as Adam de Marisco[?] and Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ro/Roger_Bacon.html (3371 words)

	Roger Bacon - LoveToKnow 1911
		Roger completed his studies at Oxford, though not, as current traditions assert, at Merton or at Brasenose, neither of which had then been founded.
		In this work Bacon makes a vehement attack upon the ignorance and vices of the clergy and monks, and generally upon the insufficiency of the existing studies.
		Bacon then discusses vision in a right line, the laws of reflection and refraction, and the construction of mirrors and lenses.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Roger_Bacon (3096 words)

	Roger Bacon - MSN Encarta
		Roger Bacon (1214?-1294), English Scholastic philosopher and scientist, one of the most influential teachers of the 13th century.
		Born in Ilchester, Somersetshire, Bacon was educated at the universities of Oxford and Paris.
		Bacon was critical of the methods of learning of the times, and in the late 1260s, at the request of Pope Clement IV, he wrote his Opus Majus (Major Work).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569765/Bacon_Roger.html (469 words)

	Roger Bacon
		Roger delayed in doing this; when the Cardinal became Clement IV and reiterated his desire, Bacon excused himself because the prohibition of his superiors stood in the way.
		Bacon himself and his pupils, such as John of Paris, whom he praises highly, William of Mara, Gerard Huy, and others are a striking argument that his proposals were no Utopian fancies: they showed in their own persons what in their idea a theologian should be.
		Bacon was a faithful scholar of open character who frankly uttered what he thought, who was not afraid to blame whatsoever and whomsoever he believed to deserve censure, a scholar who was in advance of his age by centuries.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/r/roger_bacon.html (4002 words)

	Roger Bacon
		Roger Bacon was an English scholastic philosopher and also considered a scientist because he insisted on observing things for himself instead of depending on what people had written.
		Bacon was regarded as the forerunner of the modern experimental method and advocated a scientific method of learning emphasizing observation, experimentation, mathematics and physics.
		Bacon made the bold claim that all of education needed to be revised, and that the revisions could be found in his work.
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	§18. Roger Bacon. X. English Scholars of Paris and Franciscans of Oxford. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the ...
		Roger Bacon, a native of Ilchester, was the most brilliant representative of the Franciscan order in Oxford.
		Roger Bacon was the earliest of the natural philosophers of western Europe.
		Friar Bacon is associated in legend with Friar Bungay, or Thomas de Bungay (in Suffolk), who exemplifies the close connection between the Franciscan order and the eastern counties.
	www.bartleby.com /211/1018.html (1829 words)

	Chemistry - ROGER BACON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Roger Bacon was a man born into a system where belief in God had a profound effect on all that was thought or accomplished.
		Roger Bacon's work in the fields of scientific study is predicated on his belief in the Holy Scriptures, as the one found in 1 Samuel 2:3, "For the Lord is a God of knowledge." He believed that God gave all the knowledge of science to Adam's son Seth.
		Bacon believed that science and it's workers must work in serve to a greater and more superior wisdom of the spiritual leaders who could help assure that the scientific work would be directed toward the "good ultimate of mankind".
	www.cas.usf.edu /chemistry/faculty/jpalmer/chm4070_gibson.html (2856 words)

	ROGER BACON'S PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF ALCHEMY
		Bacon set off studying medicine, the chief subject suggested by the Secrets, and around 1250 wrote a treatise on the retardation of old age in which two-thirds of the quotations are from this spurious work.
		Bacon explains to the Pope that there are two reasons for the premature onset of old age: the first is a lack of the proper regimen of health, which includes the use of alchemically concocted drugs and elixirs; the second reason is the decline of morality.
		Roger Bacon was not a medieval yogi, to be sure; but his system is consistent with the spirit of the fourteenth-century Tantrist, Madhava, who taught that alchemy "is not to be looked upon as merely eulogistic of the metal, it being immediately, through the conservation of the body, a means to the highest end, liberation."
	www.alchemywebsite.com /rbacon.html (2727 words)

	Roger Bacon - Crystalinks
		Bacon's family appears to have been well-off, but, during the stormy reign of Henry III of England, their property was despoiled and several members of the family were driven into exile.
		Some claim that Bacon fell out of favor, and was later imprisoned by the Franciscan order in 1278 in Ancona as his dissemination of Arab alchemy, and his protests against the ignorance and immorality of the clergy, roused accusations of witchcraft.
		Roger Bacon is considered by some to be the author of the Voynich Manuscript, because of his studies in the fields of alchemy, astrology, and languages.
	www.crystalinks.com /bacon.html (1265 words)

	Bacon biography
		Roger was not the oldest of his parent's sons so he would not have been expected to inherit the family estates and wealth.
		Bacon was also able to teach mathematics while in the Paris friary, so although it appears that the intention was to prevent him from undertaking research which the Church did not approve, life of a sort was still possible.
		Bacon was aiming to show the Pope that sciences had a rightful role in the university curriculum and were important to the Church.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Bacon.html (2407 words)

	Bacon’s breakthrough
		As Bacon decreased the pressure in the arc, he noticed that the carbon would go straight from the vapor phase to the solid phase, forming a stalagmite-like deposit on the lower electrode.
		Bacon demonstrated fibers with a tensile strength of 20 Gigapascals (GPa) and Young’s modulus of 700 GPa.
		Bacon’s graphite whiskers were sheets of graphite rolled into scrolls, with the graphite sheets continuous over the entire length of the filament.
	center.acs.org /landmarks/landmarks/carbon/car3.html (640 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - BACON, ROGER: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The new pope, in 1266, directed Bacon to send him in manuscript the results of his researches, despite the interdictions of Bacon's superiors.
		In 1278, however, the general of the order condemned Bacon's writings; and he was thrown into prison, there to remain for fourteen years.
		One of the most remarkable of Bacon's many great achievements in the sphere of learning is his demonstration of the need for prosecuting the study of the Hebrew language—a study which was as unknown in England as on the Continent till the fifteenth century, when Reuchlin aroused the mind of Europe on the subject.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=79&letter=B (548 words)

	Roger Bacon
		Roger Bacon, a humble and devout English friar, seems an unlikely figure to challenge the orthodoxy of his day - yet he risked his life to establish the basis for true knowledge.
		Bacon advanced the understanding of optics, made geographical breakthroughs later used by Columbus, predicted everything from horseless carriages to the telescope, and stressed the importance of mathematics to science, a significance ignored for 400 years.
		Bacon's greatest contribution was to insist that a study of the natural world by observation and exact measurement was the surest foundation for truth.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /NORbacon.htm (945 words)

	Roger Bacon
		His family appears to have been in good circumstances, but in the stormy reign of King Henry III their property was despoiled and several members of the family were driven into exile.
		Bacon, it is now said, was not appreciated by his age because he was in advance of it; he is no schoolman, but a modern thinker, whose conceptions of science are more just and clear than are even those of his more celebrated namesake.
		We never find in Bacon himself any consciousness of originality; he is rather a keen and systematic thinker, working in a well-beaten track, from which his contemporaries were being drawn by theology and metaphysics.
	www.nndb.com /people/582/000114240 (2558 words)

	BookPage Nonfiction Review: The Friar and the Cipher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bacon was the embodiment of science; he transcended Aristotle and the Greek philosophers and formulated what we know today as the scientific method.
		Bacon and Aquinas were intellectual giants on opposite sides of the religious divide, with Aquinas on the winning side.
		Bacon, a devout Catholic, spent the latter part of his life virtually imprisoned because of his beliefs, but continued to write, theorize and, it is believed, to put his thoughts down in such a way that he could not be condemned if the writing was found.
	www.bookpage.com /0503bp/nonfiction/friar_and_cipher.html (294 words)

	Direct Textbooks Price Comparison for ISBN 0767914732: The Friar and the Cipher: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bacon may not have been the leading light his fans make him out to be, but it was his methods that made him special, regardless of the ideas themselves.
		Roger Bacon may be no less deserving of having his name polished for modern readers; however, bringing Bacon to life through this manuscript is less convincing.
		Bacon is an interesting character and his story is quite fascinating and fairly well told but it is to the reader's benefit that the book is able to include, through its history of the manuscript, a host of other characters ranging from the court of Elizabeth to World War I cryptographers, and beyond.
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	AllRefer.com - Roger Bacon (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Roger Bacon c.1214–1294?, English scholastic philosopher and scientist, a Franciscan.
		Bacon was learned in Hebrew and in Greek and stressed the value of knowing the original languages in the study of Aristotle and of the Bible.
		and attributed to him, would make Bacon the first man to have observed spiral nebulae through a telescope and to have examined cells through a microscope; but considerable doubt has been cast on the original date and the authenticity of the manuscript.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BaconRog.html (449 words)

	Roger Bacon
		Roger Bacon was a friar living in 13th century England, who, hundreds of years after his death became popularly known as a powerful sorcerer.
		Roger Bacon was born in Ilchester in Somerset in the year 1214, it seems likely that he showed scholastic talent at an early age, his natural leaning in his younger years towards philosophy - especialy Greek philosophy of Aristotle.
		In Roger's day and age many of the sciences were interrelated with the beliefs of magic; alchemy is the root of modern chemistry and Roger was a practicing alchemist.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /occult/roger_bacon.html (833 words)

	Great Theosophists--Roger Bacon (17 of 29)
		Roger Bacon was one of those men who belonged by right, if not by record, to that Brotherhood which includes all those who study the occult sciences.
		Bacon was equally appreciative of the attempts made by his contemporaries to keep certain aspects of the ancient Wisdom-Religion alive, frequently quoting from the works of Rhazes, Avicenna and Averrhoes.
		The versatility of Roger Bacon appears in the fact that he was a philosopher, mathematician, philologist, physical geographer, chemist, and physician, earning for himself the title of "Doctor Mirabilis." The amount of actual scientific knowledge he possessed seems almost phenomenal at the present day.
	www.wisdomworld.org /setting/rogerbacon.html (2674 words)

	Roger Bacon
		Bacon was acquainted with the properties of mirrors, knew the powers of steam and gunpowder, had a working knowledge in microscopy, and possessed an instrument very much like a modern telescope.
		Bacon gave to the pope a proposal for a universal encyclopedia of knowledge and asked for a team of collaborators to be coordinated by a body in the Church to build the encyclopedia.
		Roger Bacon and His Search for a Universal Science: A Reconsideration of the Life and Work of Roger Bacon in the Light of His Own Stated Purposes.
	www.occultopedia.com /b/bacon.htm (1155 words)

	Roger Bacon Reporting
		Roger Bacon Reporting is an excellent book for people who are 10 to 13 years old.
		Roger Bacon Reporting is about a pig that is a radio reporter and who finds out that the Stripies (Tasmanian Tigers) still exist.
		The “Roger Bacon Reporting” book is part of a series about the Bacons, a family of talking pigs.
	www.teachers.ash.org.au /ozreading/yara/junior_reviews/roger_bacon_reporting.htm (371 words)

	Roger Bacon wins district title
		Roger Bacon (17-7) advances to the regional semifinals at Wright State, where it will face Columbus Mifflin at 8 p.m.
		Roger Bacon led throughout the game but could never put enough distance between itself and Trotwood-Madison to feel comfortable.
		ROGER BACON (77) — Johnson 1 0 2, Hausfeld 4 2 10, B. Wyrick 4 0 8, Phillips 9 5 23, St. Clair 3 0 6, Land 6 1 13, Huerkamp 1 0 3, Meridy 3 6 12.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2001/03/09/spt_roger_bacon_wins.html (511 words)

	Roger Bacon and Francis Bacon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		An English scholastic philosopher, Roger Bacon's three works proposing reforms of education, the Opus maius, Opus minus, and Opus tertium (prepared in 1267-68 at the request of Pope Clement IV), emphasized the importance of mathematics and experimentation.
		After studying the law, Bacon was elected to Parliament in 1584, and served in the government until 1621, when he retired after being found guilty of accepting bribes.
		In 1623 Francis Bacon published "On the Dignity and Growth of Sciences," which classified sciences under the general headings of history, poetry, and philosophy, and culminated in an inductive philosophy of nature.
	oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~piccard/entropy/bacon.html (263 words)

	Rocky Road: Roger Bacon
		Bacon eventually acquired the reputation of a charlatan, as well as a dabbler in fl magic.
		Bacon hoped that the publication of his works (or at least the attention of the pope) would make him powerful enough to study and write whatever he liked.
		Bacon was very much a product of his time, fervently believing in the coming of the Antichrist, insisting that Christian religion pervade all legal matters, even believing the mythical beasts like the basilisk.
	www.strangescience.net /rbacon.htm (991 words)

	BookRags: Roger Bacon Biography
		Little is known about the details of Roger Bacon's life or about the chronology and motivation of his major works, the Opus majus, the Opus minus, and the Opus tertium.
		There is no evidence that Bacon made any important contribution to science and much evidence that he was, instead, a reader, writer, and rhetorician in behalf of science.
		It is possible that an imprisonment in the final years of his life stems from the Compendium, in which he claimed to see in the then-warring factions of Christendom the presence of the antichrist and in which he took in general the extreme view of Franciscan life identified with Joachim of Fiore.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/roger-bacon (966 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Roger Bacon
		One of the most inquisitive minds of his time, Roger Bacon had a deep influence on medieval theology, philosophy, and science, but we have to be careful in our assessment of his mindset since he was, despite his many amazingly forward-looking ideas, clearly a medieval man and a devout Christian.
		Bacon always pursued scientific research highly innovative for his time, deeply influenced by the newly introduced Arabic-Aristotelian natural philosophy, but he never neglected to subordinate all his findings under the quest for God.
		In the second part Bacon discusses the close relationship between philosophy and theology, before he turns to the significance of studying foreign languages in the third part.
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