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.

Around the thirteenth century, the English monk Roger Bacon wrote a book in which he listed seven cipher methods, and stated that " a man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.

While empirical investigations of the natural world have been described since classical antiquity ( for example, by Thales, Aristotle, and others ), and scientific methods have been employed since the Middle Ages ( for example, by Ibn al-Haytham, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī and Roger Bacon ), the dawn of modern science is generally traced back to the early modern period, during what is known as the Scientific Revolution that took place in 16th and 17th century Europe.

Francis Bacon argued the case for what would become modern science which would be based more upon real experience and experimentation, free from assumptions about metaphysics, and aimed at increasing control of nature.

* 1267 – Roger Bacon completes his work Opus Majus and sends it to Pope Clement IV, who had requested it be written ; the work contains wide-ranging discussion of mathematics, optics, alchemy, astronomy, astrology, and other topics, and includes what some believe to be the first description of a magnifying glass.

* Roger Bacon completes his work Opus Majus and sends it to Pope Clement IV, who had requested it be written ; the work contains wide-ranging discussion of mathematics, optics, alchemy, astronomy, astrology, and other topics, and includes what some believe to be the first description of a magnifying glass.

The history of the human mind, as it was called in the eighteenth century, was of great concern to scholars and philosophers, and their efforts can in part be traced to Francis Bacon ’ s call for what he termed a literary history in his The Advancement of Learning.

From this Bacon suggests that the underlying cause of the phenomenon, what he calls the " form ," can be approximated by interpreting the results of one's observations.

That is also what Francis Bacon appears to tell us when he writes: " A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it ".

Thomas Hobbes, under the influence of Francis Bacon, re-oriented political thought to what was most solid but also most low in man — his physical hopes and fears — setting a precedent for John Locke and the later economic approach to political thought, as in David Hume and Adam Smith.

Sir Francis Bacon in 1592 wrote in a letter that his " vast contemplative ends " expressed his " philanthropia ", and his 1608 essay On Goodness defined his subject as " the affecting of the weale of men ... what the Grecians call philanthropia ".

In Great Britain, Lord Chancellor Sir Francis Bacon had a formative effect on science policy with his identification of " experiments of .. light, more penetrating into nature what others know ", which today we call the crucial experiment.

Much of what is known of Mazama's geology comes from a study by Howel Williams of the University of California, Berkeley and later, from USGS geologist Charles R. Bacon who expanded and modified Williams ' work.

But this format only lasted for a couple of months, and the show reverted to its original format for what would be the final months, with Bacon and Byram as the main presenters before it last aired on 29 March 2002.

Nelson ( Kiefer Sutherland ), convinces four of his medical school classmates — Joe Hurley ( William Baldwin ), David Labraccio ( Kevin Bacon ), Randall Steckle ( Oliver Platt ) and Rachel Manus ( Julia Roberts ) — to help him discover what lies beyond death.

that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.

Foucault reads into Bacon the theory of revolt of the people and there are two categories of individuals within the state, the common people ( very often referred in text as Peasants, the People, the Common people, the poor, or at times Vagabond vagrants ) and the nobility, what differentiates the common people and the nobility is their unshared interest.

In 1605, Sir Francis Bacon published The Proficience and Advancement of Learning, which contains a description of what would later be known as the scientific method.

The film portrays a young newlywed couple, Kristy and Jake Briggs played by Elizabeth McGovern and Kevin Bacon, who try to cope with being married and what is expected of them by their parents.

Their petition to court stated that Bacon had tricked Underhill " who was an almost totally deaf man, and by reason of the weakness of his eyes and the infirmity in his head, could not read writings of that nature without much pain ," to sign a paper not knowing what it contained.

Fifty years after what was then known as Custer's Last Stand, Custer's widow Elizabeth Bacon Custer spoke out against a memorial to Reno at the site.

The object of his assault consists largely in the syllogism, a method that he believes to be completely inadequate in comparison to what Bacon calls “ true Induction :”

In this second book, Bacon offers an example of the process that of what he calls true induction.

In his opening remarks, he proposes “ to establish progressive stages of certainty .” For Bacon, a measure of truth was its power to allow predictions of natural phenomena ( although Bacon's forms come close to what we might call " Truth ," because they are universal, immutable laws of nature ).

The Declaration of the People of Virginia ( or simply Declaration of the People ) was a list of complaints issued by Nathaniel Bacon on July 30, 1676, in which he proclaims Virginia's colonial governor, William Berkeley, corrupt and expresses his displeasure at what his followers regarded as unjust taxation and the government's failure to provide colonists protection from some tribes of Native Americans — the presumed grievances which brought about the uprising known as Bacon's rebellion.