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Roger Bacon was born in the year of 1214, in llchester in Somerset. His exact year of birth has been a topic of controversy and historians state it as 1213 or 1214, going by his statement.
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Roger Bacon was a 13th century English philosopher and Franciscan Friar who was awarded the scholastic accolade "Doctor Mirabilis" meaning "Wonderful Teacher".
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His early education was in geometry, arithmetic, music, astronomy, and the classics. He then attended the Oxford University an developed an interest in natural philosophy and mathematics. He then became a master at Oxford University.
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His next appointment was at the Paris University. At Paris University he talked about Aristotelian Corpus, which include physics, meta-physics and the pseudo-Aristotelian De Vegetabilibus and the De Causis;
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He was inspired by the great scholar Robert Grosseteste and he begin investing his time and money in secret books, training assistant, meeting savants, and constructing instruments.
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Roger became a friar in the Franciscan Order, Master General Bonaventure issued a decree that prohibited friars from publishing books without the Order's prior approval.
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Bacon contacted Cardinal Guy le Gros de Fouiques, who became Pope Clement lV. The Pope issued a papal mandate asking Bacon for his philosophical writings and his view on the possibility of philosophy in theology.
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Roger's luck ran out when the Pope passed away and left no official review or opinion on his work.
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The Order put him under house arrest on the accounts of his beliefs in alchemy and the general disregard for the other innovators. His book disregarded magical practices and had the formula for the philosopher's stone and possibly gunpowder.
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Roger Bacon passed away in 1292. Many books have been written about him including "Doctor Mirabilis", "The Face in the Frost", "Fifth Business" and "The Black Rose".