TheCodeBreakers
Roger Bacon, the English Franciscan friar who lived from about 1214 to
1294. Bacon had speculated, centuries before they became reality, on the
possibility of microscopes and telescopes, motorboats, horseless
carriages, and flying machines. Popular legend credited him with great
magical abilities, a reputation probably enhanced by his extensive
writing on alchemy. He interests modern science because of his
precocious emphasis on observation of natural phenomena, so unlike the
a priori scholasticism of his time. He is not to be confused with Sir
Francis Bacon, the English statesman who lived from 1561 to 1626,
wrote the famous Essays, and largely shaped modern science through
the influence of his philosophy—although that philosophy, insisting
upon induction and experimentation, does bear a strange kinship to that
of his medieval namesake.
[Codebreakers 431.jpg]
A page of the Voynich manuscript
annaabi.ee 
