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    Roger Bacon OFM (/ˈbeɪkən/; Latin: Rogerus or Rogerius Baconus, Baconis, also Frater Rogerus; c. 1219/20 – c. 1292), also known by the scholastic accolade...
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  • Roger Stuart Bacon (June 29, 1926 – October 4, 2021) was a Canadian politician who served as the 21st premier of Nova Scotia from 1990 to 1991. He was...
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    Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor. Known for his leading man and character roles, Bacon has received numerous accolades, including...
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  • Roger Bacon (c. 1219/20–c. 1292) was an English philosopher and friar. Roger Bacon may also refer to: Sir Roger Sewell Bacon (1895–1962), British judge...
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  • Roger Bacon High School is a Catholic high school in St. Bernard, Ohio, based in the Franciscan tradition. This high school was dedicated in 1928, and...
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    Feely published Roger Bacon's Cipher: The Right Key Found, in which he claimed that the book was a scientific diary written by Roger Bacon. Feely's method...
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    period whose ownership was ascribed to late medieval scholars, such as Roger Bacon, who had developed a reputation as wizards. Made of brass or bronze,...
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    According to Roger Bacon, Sherwood was among "the more famous wise men of Christendom", of whom he names another as Albertus Magnus. Bacon judged Sherwood...
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  • Jeremiah Hackett, "Roger Bacon: His Life, Career, and Works," in Hackett, Roger Bacon and the Sciences, pp. 13–17. "Roger Bacon", Encyclopædia Britannica...
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    astrolabe. The literature often mentions that Peregrinus was praised by Roger Bacon, who called him a "perfect mathematician" and one who valued experience...
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  • Roger Bacon (April 16, 1926 – January 26, 2007) was an American physicist and inventor at the Parma Technical Center of National Carbon Company in suburban...
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    valid. St. Germain's incarnations as St. Alban, Proclus, Roger Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon are universally accepted. Ruler of a Golden Age civilization...
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  • jurist, librarian Roger Bacon (c 1210 – c 1292), a medieval English philosopher and Franciscan friar Kevin Bacon (1958-), an actor Bacon (name), a comprehensive...
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  • Edward. W. H. Allen. pp. 147–149. OCLC 9986841. R Bacon (2000) [1928]. The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon. translator: BR Belle. University of Pennsylvania...
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  • historical novel recounts of the life of the 13th-century English Franciscan Roger Bacon and his struggle to develop a 'Universal Science'. Though thoroughly...
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    Translated by Sachau, C. Edward. pp. 147–149. R Bacon (2000) [1928]. The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon. BR Belle. University of Pennsylvania Press. table...
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    of the word in something like its current sense is in Latin in 1267. Roger Bacon used it to mean a set of tables detailing movements of heavenly bodies...
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    that of the encyclopaedists. In the 13th century, Albertus Magnus and Roger Bacon were the most notable of these, their work summarizing and explaining...
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  • Emerald Tablet only the meaning of secret was retained. Around 1275–1280, Roger Bacon translated and commented on the Secret of Secrets, and through a completely...
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    Charleston and Winthrop University. Kelsey played high school basketball at Roger Bacon High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. He transferred to Elder High School...
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    Ibn al-Haytham is thought to have inspired are Witelo, John Peckham, Roger Bacon, Leonardo da Vinci, René Descartes and Johannes Kepler. However, On the...
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    in the sky, and further and larger on the horizon. Through works by Roger Bacon, John Pecham and Witelo based on Alhazen's explanation, the Moon illusion...
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    Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, originally entitled The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay, is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written...
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  • account are those treatable by geometry and verifiable by experiment. Roger Bacon's assertions in the Opus Majus that "theories supplied by reason should...
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    and studied by Robert Grosseteste. His work on light was continued by Roger Bacon, who wrote in his Opus Majus of 1268 about experiments with light shining...
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    Easton, S.C. (1952), 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...
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    encyclopedia De Proprietatibus Rerum (On the Properties of Things), as well as Roger Bacon, by which time the moment was further subdivided into 12 ounces of 47...
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    Hohenstaufens. Pope Clement was a patron of Thomas Aquinas and of Roger Bacon, encouraging Bacon in the writing of his Opus Majus, which included important treatises...
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  • Cincinnati Bearcats. He previously played for the LSU Tigers. Kiner attended Roger Bacon High School in St. Bernard, Ohio. As a senior in 2020, he was named Ohio...
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    blades of grass, or any minute objects." Bacon, Roger; Burke, Robert Belle, trans. (1962) The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon (New York: Russell & Russell, Inc.)...
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