The First Scientist
Subtitle: A Life of Roger Bacon
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: May 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780786713585
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography; History of science; Scientists; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Scientists - General; Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
First sentence: In the early summer of 1292, in the Franciscan friary at Oxford, an old man lay dying.