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Bacon discovered the art of making reading-glasses...and various other mathematical and astronomical instruments....That the ingredients of gunpowder and the art of making it were known to him is now undeniable; but the humane philosopher dreading the consequences of communicating the discovery to the world, transposed the letters of the Latin words which signify charcoal, which made the whole obscure.
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| Robert Henry
(1718 - 1790)
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British historian
Referring to Roger Bacon. |
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| History of England (vol. 6), 1793. |
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