Such a feat was also attributed to Roger Bacon.

Several of Ochino's Prediche were also translated into English by a lady, Anna Cooke ( or Anne Cooke ; b. 1533 ) afterwards second wife of Sir Nicholas Bacon ; and he published numerous controversial treatises on the Continent.

Bacon is also considered to be the philosophical influence behind the dawning of the Industrial age.

It is also believed by the Rosicrucian organization AMORC, that Bacon would have influenced a settlement of mystics in North America, stating that his work " The New Atlantis " inspired a colony of Rosicrucians led by Johannes Kelpius, to journey across the Atlantic Ocean in a chartered vessel called Sarah Mariah, and move on to Pennsylvania in late XVII Century.

He also began an intense study of Elizabethan literature thinking there might be evidence that Francis Bacon wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare ( see Shakespearean authorship question ); this ultimately resulted in two pamphlets, published in 1896 and 1897.

His knowledge of optics was connected to the handed-down long-standing tradition of the Kitab al-manazir ( The Optics ; De aspectibus ) of the Arab polymath Alhazen ( Ibn al-Haytham, d. c. 1041 ), which was mediated by Franciscan optical workshops of the 13th-century Perspectivae traditions of scholars such as Roger Bacon, John Peckham and Witelo ( similar influences are also traceable in the third commentary of Lorenzo Ghiberti, Commentario terzo ).

Latin was the language of the ancient Romans, but it was also the lingua franca of Europe throughout the middle ages, so Latin literature includes not only Roman authors like Cicero, Vergil, Ovid and Lucretius, but also includes European writers after the fall of the Empire from religious writers like St. Augustine ( 354 – 430 AD ), to secular writers like Francis Bacon ( 1561-1626 ) and Spinoza ( 1632 – 1677 ).

He also ordered the Franciscan scholar Roger Bacon to write the Opus maius, which is addressed to him.

Sharply contrarian on many subjects, Hobbes, like Bacon, also promoted a simpler and more natural style that used figures of speech sparingly.

Besides the Opus maius Bacon also sent his Opus minus, De multiplicatione specierum, and, perhaps, other works on alchemy and astrology.

Francis Bacon also states that he was " a good lawmaker for the ease and solace of the common people.

He also appeared alongside Kevin Bacon, John Malkovich, and Jamie Lee Curtis in Steve Rash's Queens Logic, and opposite Tom Berenger and Kathy Bates in Hector Babenco's film At Play in the Fields of the Lord, adapted from Peter Matthiessen's 1965 novel.

Other popular films included About Last Night ..., Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Dirty Dancing, Flashdance, Footloose, Raging Bull and St. Elmo's Fire which also launched the careers of high profile celebrities like Demi Moore, Joe Pesci, Keanu Reeves, Kevin Bacon, Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze.

Bacon also completes Opus Minus, a summary of Opus Majus, later in the same year.

General George Armstrong Custer also kept greyhounds as hunters and companions, to the occasional chagrin of his wife, Elizabeth Bacon Custer.

The earliest major philosophers to publish in English, such as Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke also routinely wrote in Latin and French, and compared their terms to Greek, treating the words " logos ", " ratio ", " raison " and " reason " as inter-changeable.

Bacon also completes Opus Minus, a summary of Opus Majus, later in the same year.

Bacon also appeared in a commercial for the Visa check card that parodied the game.

The concept was also presented in an episode of the TV show Mad About You dated November 19, 1996 in which a character expressed the opinion that every actor is only three degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon.

He also made an uncredited appearance in the Michael Moore film, Canadian Bacon, as a motorcycle cop.

His congregation published a commemorative volume in his honor, Leonard Bacon, Pastor of the First Church in New Haven ( New Haven, 1882 ), and his biography is also found in Williston Walker's Ten New England Leaders ( New York, 1901 ).

He also painted Mary, Queen of Scots, Sir Nicholas Bacon, Sir Francis Walsingham, Lord High Admiral Howard.

In 1553 Sir Nicholas Bacon married secondly Anne Cooke ( 1528 – 1610 ), one of the daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke, by whom he had two sons, Anthony ( 1558 – 1601 ) and Francis Bacon ( 1561 – 1626 ), who became Lord Chancellor and was also a philosopher, author and scientist.

During the Restoration, Bacon was commonly invoked as a guiding spirit of the Royal Society founded under Charles II in 1660.

David Bacon founded and organized Tallmadge, placing a square road in the center of town where several other roads met, modeled after New England designs of the time period.

* Liborio Heyrosa Eskrima De Cuerdas – founded by Liborio " Tiboring " Heyrosa, student of Anciong Bacon and " Ingko Nene " Rosales.

* Nickel Stick Eskrima – founded by Nick Elizar, student of Anciong Bacon and the other senior Balintawak pioneers.

Libraries have been started with wills from other benefactors ; for example, the Bacon Free Library in South Natick, Massachusetts was founded in 1881 after a benefactor left $ 15, 000 in a will ; it has operated as a public library since then.

Bacon College existed from 1837 – 1851, founded by the Christian churches in Kentucky.

Arrow Development Company Inc was founded in 1946 when World War II veterans, Ed Morgan, Karl Bacon, Bill Hardiman, and Angus " Andy " Anderson, formed a small machine shop at 243 Moffett Boulevard, just north of Downtown Mountain View, California.

However, Page and Ditchfield state that there are two cottages that one James Bacon founded in 1747.

Later, Teodoro Saavedra rose to prominence as the best fighter in the Doce Pares society, Venancio Bacon was among the first members in the club and a few months later left the club due to arguments that the Doce Pares system was not an effective escrima and founded Balintawak Eskrima.

Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Nicholas Bacon also founded the school's library in 1570, which moved from Sumpter Yard in the 19th century to the Abbey Gateway, and then in the 1980s to an impressive converted 19th century neo-Gothic hall, opened by Professor Colin Renfrew OA, then Master of Jesus College, Cambridge.

Although he may not have founded the genre of Utopian and dystopian fiction, More certainly popularised it and some of the early works which owe something to Utopia include The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella, Description of the Republic of Christianopolis by Johannes Valentinus Andreae, New Atlantis by Francis Bacon and Candide by Voltaire.

Bacon was the co-founder of the LugRadio podcast and live events and the only member to appear on every show.

The broadcaster Richard Bacon often talks about going to Groucho's in his podcast and occasionally mentions other members

Two aspects of this attitude deserve to be mentioned: 1 ) he did not only study science from books, as other academics did in his day, but actually observed and experimented with nature ( the rumours starting by those who did not understand this are probably at the source of Albert's supposed connections with alchemy and witchcraft ), 2 ) he took from Aristotle the view that scientific method had to be appropriate to the objects of the scientific discipline at hand ( in discussions with Roger Bacon, who, like many 20th century academics, thought that all science should be based on mathematics ).

In 1959 he contributed to the British arts review X magazine ( other contributors included Bacon, Freud, Auerbach and Kokoschka ) with an article, The Dream, the Sphinx, and the Death of T, and drawings.

This massive text, which Roger Bacon would later sarcastically describe as weighing as much as a horse, was unfinished at his death ; his students, William of Middleton and John of Rupella, were charged with its completion.

The role of judgment and disagreement in science has been recognized since Aristotle and even more clearly with Francis Bacon.

She followed with another leading part in the thriller film Trapped ( 2002 ), alongside Kevin Bacon and Charlize Theron.

He covers over 40 scientists, with special attention paid to Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton.

Considerable argument broke out as a result, with significant numbers of servicemen disputing the published version, including Admiral Bacon, who wrote his own book about the battle, criticising the version sponsored by Beatty and highly critical of Beatty's own part in the Battle.

Philosophers associated with empiricism include Aristotle, Alhazen, Avicenna, Ibn Tufail, Robert Grosseteste, William of Ockham, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Robert Boyle, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Leopold von Ranke, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Popper.

Each year they honor one notable actor, actress, or filmmaker with the " Kevin Norwood Bacon Award for Achievement in Cinema ", acknowledging the success the recipient has achieved in being so closely connected to Kevin Bacon.

Biographers believe that Bacon was educated at home in his early years owing to poor health ( which plagued him throughout his life ), receiving tuition from John Walsall, a graduate of Oxford with a strong leaning towards Puritanism.

He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, on 5 April 1573 at the age of twelve, living for three years there together with his older brother Anthony Bacon under the personal tutelage of Dr John Whitgift, future Archbishop of Canterbury.

Bacon soon became acquainted with Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth's favourite.

According to his personal secretary and chaplain, William Rawley, as a judge Bacon was always tender-hearted, " looking upon the examples with the eye of severity, but upon the person with the eye of pity and compassion ".

Bacon continued to use his influence with the king to mediate between the throne and Parliament and in this capacity he was further elevated in the same peerage, as Viscount St Alban, on 27 January 1621.

Bacon has been accused of servility, of dissimulation, of various base motives, and their filthy brood of base actions, all unworthy of his high birth, and incompatible with his great wisdom, and the estimation in which he was held by the noblest spirits of the age.

Bacon disinherited her upon discovering her secret romantic relationship with Sir John Underhill.

Bacon's personal secretary and chaplain, William Rawley, however, wrote in his biography of Bacon that his inter-marriage with Alice Barnham was one of " much conjugal love and respect ", mentioning a robe of honour that he gave to her, and which " she wore unto her dying day, being twenty years and more after his death ".

Aubrey's vivid account, which portrays Bacon as a martyr to experimental scientific method, had him journeying to Highgate through the snow with the King's physician when he is suddenly inspired by the possibility of using the snow to preserve meat: " They were resolved they would try the experiment presently.

After stuffing the fowl with snow, Bacon contracted a fatal case of pneumonia.

Francis Bacon often gathered with the men at Gray's Inn to discuss politics and philosophy, and to try out various theatrical scenes that he admitted writing.

However others, including Daphne du Maurier ( in her biography of Bacon ), have argued there is no substantive evidence to support claims of involvement with the Rosicrucians.