English polymath, philosopher and friar (c.1219/20–c.1292)

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An archangel revealing the physical nature of the universe to a group of natural philosophers and mathematicians. Etching by James Barry, 1795, after his painting.

Roger Bacon: the tower known as Roger Bacon's study, Oxford. Coloured line engraving by M.A. Rooker, ca. 1780.

Oxford: Friar Bacon's study, with the river. Line engraving.

Roger Bacon. Stipple engraving after Ægidius Sadeler.

Roger Bacon. Stipple engraving, 1786.

Friar Bacon's Study, Oxford: including the river. Line engraving by G. Hawkins.

Roger Bacon conducting an alchemical experiment in a vaulted cloister. Etching by J. Nasmyth, 1845.

Roger Bacon. Line engraving by Beyssent after Mlle Cl. Reydellet.

A man sleeps between Roger Bacon (?) and a musician: a brass head proclaims time present and the past. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720.

Roger Bacon. Stipple engraving.

La scienza sperimentale : Lettera a Clemente IV ; La scienza sperimentale ; I segreti dell'arte e della natura / Ruggero Bacone ; a cura di Francesco Bottin.

Un fragment inédit de l'Opus tertium de Roger Bacon / précéde d'une étude sur ce fragment par Pierre Duhem.

Roger Bacon and the state of science in the thirteenth century / by Robert Steele.

Roger Bacon's "De laudibus mathematicae" : a preliminary study / George Molland.

Roger Bacon : essays contributed by various writers on the occasion of the commemoration of the seventh centenary of his birth / collected and edited by A.G. Little.

Le miroir d'alquimie / ... Traduict de latin en françois par un gentilhomme du Daulphiné [i.e. Nicolas Barnaud].

This boke doth create all of the beste waters artyfycialles : and the vertues and properties of the same, moche profytable for the poore sycke, set forth, by syr Roger Becon Freere.

Basilius Valentinus, a Benedictine monk, Of natural & supernatural things : also, of the first tincture, root, and spirit of metals and minerals ... Whereunto is added, Frier Roger Bacon, of the medicine or tincture of antimony; Mr. John Isaac Holland, his work of Saturn, and Alex. van Suchten, of the secrets of antimony / Translated out of High Dutch by Daniel Cable.

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Roger Bacon

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Le miroir d'alquimie / ... Traduict de latin en françois par un gentilhomme du Daulphiné [i.e. Nicolas Barnaud].

This boke doth create all of the beste waters artyfycialles : and the vertues and properties of the same, moche profytable for the poore sycke, set forth, by syr Roger Becon Freere.

La scienza sperimentale : Lettera a Clemente IV ; La scienza sperimentale ; I segreti dell'arte e della natura / Ruggero Bacone ; a cura di Francesco Bottin.

Un fragment inédit de l'Opus tertium de Roger Bacon / précéde d'une étude sur ce fragment par Pierre Duhem.

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Roger Bacon

Images from the collections

Images featuring Roger Bacon

Works from the collections

Le miroir d'alquimie / ... Traduict de latin en françois par un gentilhomme du Daulphiné [i.e. Nicolas Barnaud].

This boke doth create all of the beste waters artyfycialles : and the vertues and properties of the same, moche profytable for the poore sycke, set forth, by syr Roger Becon Freere.

La scienza sperimentale : Lettera a Clemente IV ; La scienza sperimentale ; I segreti dell'arte e della natura / Ruggero Bacone ; a cura di Francesco Bottin.

Un fragment inédit de l'Opus tertium de Roger Bacon / précéde d'une étude sur ce fragment par Pierre Duhem.

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