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Ideas of Roger Bacon, by Text

[English, 1214 - 1292, Born in Ilchester. Said to have invented gunpowder. Franciscan, based at Oxford University.]

1254 Opus Maius (major works)
I.10 p.543 No one even knows the nature and properties of a fly - why it has that colour, or so many feet