Chap-books of the eighteenth century . THE HISTORY Of the Learned FRIAR Printed and Sold in Church Yard,London, 54 Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century. Roger Bacon was born at Ilchester, Somersetshire, in 1214,and was educated at Oxford and Paris, where he was He seems to have settled at Oxford about 1240, andentered the order of St. Francis. He devoted himself bodyand soul to the study of natural philosophy, mathematics, andchemistry, and obtained such celebrity by his discoveries, thatthey were assigned to evil spirits, and he himself was brandedas a magician. He
Chap-books of the eighteenth century . THE HISTORY Of the Learned FRIAR Printed and Sold in Church Yard,London, 54 Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century. Roger Bacon was born at Ilchester, Somersetshire, in 1214,and was educated at Oxford and Paris, where he was He seems to have settled at Oxford about 1240, andentered the order of St. Francis. He devoted himself bodyand soul to the study of natural philosophy, mathematics, andchemistry, and obtained such celebrity by his discoveries, thatthey were assigned to evil spirits, and he himself was brandedas a magician. He was confined to his cell and forbidden tolecture. A copy of his Opus Majus being sent to ClementIV. on his elevation to the Papal chair, he promised his pro-tection, which continued until his death; when Bacon wasmore severely persecuted, his works were prohibited, and he wasimprisoned about ten years. When released, he returned tohis beloved Oxford, where he died, June 11, 1292. Why thepopular idea of him in after times should be always associatedwith the ludicrous, I cann
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