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Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294

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

    Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294 | Date: 1557
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    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.

    Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294 | Date: [1550], [©1550]
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    La scienza sperimentale : Lettera a Clemente IV ; La scienza sperimentale ; I segreti dell'arte e della natura / Ruggero Bacone ; a cura di Francesco Bottin.

    Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. | Date: 1990
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    Un fragment inédit de l'Opus tertium de Roger Bacon / précéde d'une étude sur ce fragment par Pierre Duhem.

    Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. | Date: 1909
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    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.

    Basilius Valentinus. | Date: 1671
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