Magnifying glass was first discovered by Roger Bacon, he is also known as Doctor Mirabilis (Latin: "wonderful teacher"), he was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed an emphasis on empiricism. She is sometimes named as one of the advocates of the modern scientific method in Europe, inspired by the works of Plato and Aristotle through Islamic scientists and scholars of Jewish predecessors: Ibnu Sina, Ibnu Rushd and Maimonides.
Roger Bacon was born in Ilchester in Somerset, around 1213 or 1214di friary Ilchester. The one source that says about his birth is in OpusTertium statement, written in 1267, that "forty years have passed since I first learned the alphabet". 1214 births considered literal, and may mean 40 years have passed since he graduated at Oxford at the age of 13 years.
Bacon studied and later became a master at Oxford, lecturing on Aristotle, although there is no evidence that he was never awarded a doctorate. title is the title Doctor Mirabilis was figurative. Roughly between 1237 and 1245, he began studying at the University of Paris, and then focus on the intellectual life of Europe. Existence between 1247 and 1256 can not be ascertained, but around 1256 he Friar in the Franciscan Order. As a Franciscan Friar, he no longer holds the post of teaching, and after the activity is further limited by the 1260 Act which prohibits a Franciscan publishing books and pamphlets without specific approval.
Throughout his life bacon produced many discoveries, including optics, alchemy, and the manufacture of gunpowder, the position and size of celestial bodies, and anticipates later inventions microscope, telescope, eye glass, aircraft, hydraulics, steam ships. Bacon studied astrology and believed that the heavenly bodies have an influence on the fate and the human mind.
Roger Bacon,, died in about the year 1294. Lots of writers perpetuate the Bacon story in a variety of books and most commercially successful was The Black Rose bouquet Thomas Costain, where the book was Roger Bacon appears as the first scientist in the book.
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