Roger+Bacon

Roger Bacon was born in Ilchester in Somerset, England, possibly in 1213 or 1214 at the Ilchester Friary.The only source for his birth date is his statement in the Opus Tertium, written in 1267, that "forty years have passed since I first learned the alphabet". The 1214 birth date assumes he meant 40 years had passed since he matriculated at Oxford at age 13. If he had been literal, his birth date was more likely around 1220 to 1222. In the same passage he said that for all but two of the forty years he had been engaged in study.His family appears to have been well-off, but during the stormy reign of Henry III of England their property was seized and several family member driven into exile. Born c.1214 Died c.1294 (age 80) Nitionality- english Religion- roman catholic

Bacon is often concidered the first europen to desciribe a mixture containing the essential ingretiants of gunpowder. based on two passeges form bacons opus manus and opus terium, exstensively annalizewd by J.R. patterson. From the violence of the salt the called saltpetre, together with sulfer and willow charcoal, combined into a powder so horrible a sound is made by the birsting of a thing so small, no more than a bit of parchment, that we find, the ear assaulted by a noise exceedeing the raor of strong thunder, and a flash brighter than the most briliant lightning.