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  • He said, “Have you ever heard the name Roger Bacon?”

    The Book of Unholy Mischief Elle Newmark 2008

  • He said, “Have you ever heard the name Roger Bacon?”

    The Book of Unholy Mischief Elle Newmark 2008

  • He said, “Have you ever heard the name Roger Bacon?”

    The Chef’s Apprentice Elle Newmark 2008

  • He said, “Have you ever heard the name Roger Bacon?”

    The Chef’s Apprentice Elle Newmark 2008

  • He said, “Have you ever heard the name Roger Bacon?”

    The Book of Unholy Mischief Elle Newmark 2008

  • The two Western European figures standing out from this general background are, not too surprisingly, two of the greatest universal thinkers of the high Middle Ages, namely Roger Bacon and Dante.

    LINGUISTICS HENRY M. HOENIGSWALD 1968

  • a monk name Roger Bacon had made gunpowder; but nobody used it much until, in the reign of Edward III., it was found out how cannon might be fired with it; and some say it was first used in the battle of Crecy.

    Young Folks' History of England Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • [175] B.R. ROWBOTTOM: "Roger Bacon," The Journal of the Alchemical Society, vol.ii. (1914), p. 77.

    Bygone Beliefs 1969

  • The University of Oxford has a distinguished scientific history stretching back to Roger Bacon, the 13th century philosopher who was one of the founders of modern scientific method.

    Welcome to the Museum Of Weird and Wonderful Paul Levy 2011

  • The University of Oxford has a distinguished scientific history stretching back to Roger Bacon, the 13th century philosopher who was one of the founders of modern scientific method.

    Welcome to the Museum Of Weird and Wonderful Paul Levy 2011

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