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• Gunpowder was known to Roger Bacon and Albertus Magnus about 1250, but... I conclude that both obtained a knowledge of it from Arabic sources.

  J. R. Partington
• After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thoughtbut his constant dread of persecution, both from Catholics and Protestants, led him steadily to veil his thoughts and even to suppress them. The execution of Bruno had occurred in his childhood, and in the midst of his career he had watched the Galileo struggle in all its stages.Since Roger Bacon, perhaps, no great thinker had been so completely abased and thwarted by theological oppression.

  René Descartes
• Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn all the works of the Stagirite, since the study of them was not simply loss of time, but multiplication of ignorance. Yet in spite of this outbreak every page is studded with citations from Aristotle, of whom he everywhere speaks in the highest admiration.

  Aristotle

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