This image may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by the Science History Institute of any product, service or activity, or to concur with a
This image may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by the Science History Institute of any product, service or activity, or to concur with an opinion or confirm the accuracy of any text appearing alongside or in logical association with the image. Roger Bacon (), English natural philosopher and alchemist. Bacon studied at Oxford and Paris, and joined the Franciscan Order as a monk. Like Galileo, Bacon's bold ideas attracted persecution, and he was imprisoned for 15 years. An early proponent of the experimental method, he predicted mechanical transport and foreshadowed Paracelsus when he claimed that alchemy was essential to medicine. This etching is part of a series of five reissued in 1903 from the Bibliomania series (Bibliophile Society of Boston). Etchings by US artist William Harry Warren Bicknell (1860-1947), after US illustrator Howard Pyle (1853-1911).
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