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The first scientist

a life of Roger Bacon

by Brian Clegg

2003 244 pages eng

"Roger Bacon, a humble and devout English friar, seems an unlikely figure to challenge the orthodoxy of his day - yet this unworldly man risked his life to establish the basis for true scientific knowledge.". "Born around 1220, Bacon was passionately interested in the natural world and how things w…

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