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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.
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A page of the Voynich manuscript
Presumably Roger Bacon would have written the manuscript in cipher to
conceal secrets that, if publicized, would have left him open to the grave
medieval charge of black magic.
But how did a manuscript attributed to Roger Bacon get to Rudolf's
court at Prague? Between 1584 and 1588, one of the Emperor's most
welcome visitors was Dr. John
Dee, an English divine, mathematician, and astrologer who is
sometimes said to have been the model for Prospero in The Tempest. Dee
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