Such a feat was also attributed to Roger Bacon.

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.

Attacks upon the monopolists by Parliament for the abuse of prices led to the scapegoating of Francis Bacon by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, leading to Bacon's impeachment before the Lords, the first of its kind which was not officially sanctioned by the King in the form of a bill of attainder since 1459.

" The word " euthanasia " was first used in a medical context by Francis Bacon in the 17th century, to refer to an easy, painless, happy death, during which it was a " physician's responsibility to alleviate the ' physical sufferings ' of the body.

In fact, Elizabeth believed that faith was personal and did not wish, as Francis Bacon put it, to " make windows into men's hearts and secret thoughts ".

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban, Kt., KC ( 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626 ) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author.

Bacon was knighted in 1603, and created both the Baron Verulam in 1618 and the Viscount St. Alban in 1621 ; as he died without heirs, both peerages became extinct upon his death.

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.

When the Attorney-Generalship fell vacant in 1594, Lord Essex's influence was not enough to secure Bacon that office.

In 1598 Bacon was arrested for debt.

With others, Bacon was appointed to investigate the charges against Essex, his former friend and benefactor.

Bacon was subsequently a part of the legal team headed by Attorney General Sir Edward Coke at Essex's treason trial.

After the execution, the Queen ordered Bacon to write the official government account of the trial, which was later published as A DECLARATION of the Practices and Treasons attempted and committed by Robert late Earle of Essex and his Complices, against her Majestie and her Kingdoms ... after Bacon's first draft was heavily edited by the Queen and her ministers.

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 ".

In 1613, Bacon was finally appointed attorney general, after advising the king to shuffle judicial appointments.

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.

There seems little doubt that Bacon had accepted gifts from litigants, but this was an accepted custom of the time and not necessarily evidence of deeply corrupt behaviour.

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.

When he was 36, Bacon engaged in the courtship of Elizabeth Hatton, a young widow of 20.

When Bacon was appointed Lord Chancellor, " by special Warrant of the King ", Lady Bacon was given precedence over all other Court ladies.

Kevin Norwood Bacon ( born July 8, 1958 ) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, The River Wild, Murder in the First, Apollo 13, Hollow Man, Stir of Echoes, Trapped, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Death Sentence, Frost / Nixon, X-Men: First Class and Tremors.

Bacon, one of six children, was born and raised in a close-knit family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

They have two children, Travis Sedgwick Bacon ( born June 23, 1989 in Los Angeles, California ) and Sosie Ruth Bacon ( born March 15, 1992 ).

Roger Bacon was born in Ilchester in Somerset, England, possibly in 1213 or 1214 at the Ilchester Friary.

Leonard Bacon was born in Detroit, Michigan.

He was born at Chislehurst, Kent, the second son of Robert Bacon ( 1479 – 1548 ) of Drinkstone, Suffolk, by his wife Eleanor ( Isabel ) Cage.

The Irish born painter Francis Bacon ( 1909 – 1992 ) was profoundly influenced by Eisenstein's images, particularly the Odessa Steps shot of the nurse's broken glasses and open mouthed scream.

Bacon was born in a frontier log-cabin in Tallmadge, Ohio, the youngest daughter of a Congregationalist minister, who in pursuit of a vision had abandoned New Haven for the wilds of Ohio.

* Everett Bacon ( 1890 – 1989 ), athlete and World War I veteran was born in town.

* Actor Miles Heizer born 1994, well known for his role in Rails & Ties with Kevin Bacon.

The painter Henry Bacon ( 1839 – 1912 ) was born in Haverhill.

While he was not born in Monroe, Custer spent much of his boyhood living in Monroe, where he later met and married Elizabeth Bacon ( 1842 – 1933 ) during the Civil War in 1864.

* Paul Bacon ( born 1923 ), designer of book and album covers.

He was born about 1550, in Norfolk, of a family related by marriage to Nicholas Bacon, and probably to John Aylmer, Bishop of London.

Francis Bacon was born in Dublin at 63 Lower Baggot Street, to parents of British descent.

** Anne Bacon, English translator ( born c. 1528 )

Carlucci was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the son of Roxanne ( née Bacon ) and Frank Charles Carlucci, Jr., an insurance broker.

* Roger Bacon, who was a notable medieval scientist, is said to have been born in or near Ilchester.

* Richard Bacon ( politician ) ( born 1962 ), English Conservative politician, Member of Parliament for South Norfolk since 2001

A third Thomas Bushell ( 1594-1674 ), `` much loved '' by Bacon, called himself `` The Superlative Prodigall '' in The First Part of Youths Errors ( 1628 ) and became an expert on silver mines and on the art of running into debt.

About 1888 J. E. McNaughton of Barnumville and E. G. Bacon became proprietors of the `` Green Mountain Telegraph Company '', connecting all offices on the Western Union line and extending over the mountain from Barnumville to Peru, Londonderry, South Londonderry, Lowell Lake, Windham, North Windham, Grafton, Cambridgeport, Saxton's River, and Bellows Falls.

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

The works of Ibn al-Haytham and Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī eventually passed on to Western Europe where they were studied by scholars such as Roger Bacon and Witelo.

The very earliest published work on growing terrestrial plants without soil was the 1627 book Sylva Sylvarum by Francis Bacon, printed a year after his death.

In 2003, Bacon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Bacon did earn strong reviews for Footloose, and he appeared on the cover of People magazine soon after its release.

As the executive producer of 1998's Wild Things, Bacon reserved a supporting role for himself, and went on to star in Stir of Echoes ( directed by David Koepp ) in 1999, and in Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man in 2000.

Bacon decried the decision, commenting: " I don't get it, when I see films ( that ) are extremely violent, extremely objectionable sometimes in terms of the roles that women play, slide by with an R, no problem, because the people happen to have more of their clothes on.

" Bacon was again acclaimed for a dark starring role playing an offending pedophile on parole in the 2004 film The Woodsman ; he was nominated best actor receiving the Independent Spirit Award.

In March 2012, Bacon was featured in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play, ' 8 ' — a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage — as Attorney Charles J. Cooper.

Bacon has been married to actress Kyra Sedgwick since September 4, 1988 ; they met on the set of the PBS version of Lanford Wilson's play Lemon Sky.

Bacon and Sedgwick learned in 2011 via their appearance on the PBS TV show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates that he and Sedgwick are 10th cousins, once removed.

The most recently-serving premier to die was Jim Bacon ( 1998 – 2004 ), on 20 June 2004.

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

As a result Bacon sent the Pope his Opus Majus, which presented his views on how the philosophy of Aristotle and the new science could be incorporated into a new Theology.

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