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(n)Bacon, Roger BaconEnglish scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)
(n)Bacon, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St. AlbansEnglish statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)