1844, _A Piece of
Friar Bacon's Brazen Heade's Prophesie_ (1604). For Bacon as a classical
scholar see J. E. Sandys, _Hist. of Class. Schol._ (2nd ed., 1906), cxxxi.

(R. AD.; X.)

[1] Brewer thinks this unknown professor is Richard of Cornwall, but the
little we know of Richard is not in harmony with the terms in which he is
elsewhere spoken of by Bacon. Erdmann conjectures Thomas Aquinas, which is
extremely improbable, as Thomas was unquestionably not the first of his
order to study philosophy. Cousin and Charles think that Albertus Magnus is
aimed at, and certainly much of what is said applies with peculiar force to
him. But some things do not at all cohere with what is otherwise known of
Albert. It is worth pointing out that Brewer, in transcribing the passage
bearing on this (_Op. Ined._ p. 327), has the words _fratrum puerulus_,
which in his marginal note he interprets as applying to the Franciscan
order. In this case, of course, Albert could not be the person referred to,
as he was a Dominican. But Charles, in his transcription, entirely omits
the important word _fratrum_.

[2] The more important MSS. are:--(1) The extensive work on the fundamental
notions of physics, called _Communia Naturalium_, which is found in the
Mazarin library at Paris, in the British Museum, and in the Bodleian and
University College libraries at Oxford; (2) on the fundamental notions of
mathematics, _De Communibus Mathematicae_, part of which is in the Sloane
collection, part in the Bodleian; (3) _Baconis Physica_, contained among
the additional MSS. in the British Museum; (4) the fragment called _Quinta
Pars Compendii Theologiae_, in the British Museum; (5) the _Compendium
Studii Theologiae_, in the British Museum; (6) the logical fragments, such
as the _Summulae Dialectices_, in the Bodleian, and the glosses upon
Aristotle's physics and metaphysics in the library at Amiens. See Little,
_The Grey Friars in Oxford_ (1892).

[3] At the close of the _Verb. Abbrev._ is a curious note, concluding with
the words, "_ipse Rogerus fuit discipulus fratris Alberti!_"

[4] See Duehring, _Kritische Ges. d. Phil._ 192, 249-251.

BACON (through the O. Fr. _bacon_, Low Lat. _baco_, from a Teutonic word
cognate with "back," _e.g._ O. H. Ger. _pacho_, M. H. Ger. _backe_,
buttock, flitch of bacon), the flesh of the sides and back of the pig,
cured by salting, drying, pickling and smoking.

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