Roger Bacon's assistant Miles confronted by the Brazen Head, from a 1905 illustration. Roger Bacon (c. 1219/20 - c. 1292) was a medieval English philosopher and Franciscan friar who was known for championing empiricism. In the early modern era, he was regarded as a wizard and particularly famed for the story of his mechanical or necromantic brazen head.

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