Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-03-03 | Page 21 | Jots from Science

I JOTS FROM SCIENCE I R BACON on of the earliest and most learned men of during the thir Century Often rebuked as a sorcerer Bacon kept many of his discoveries secret but it is definitely that lie invented gunpowder and manufactured manu and scientific He is gen regarded as the most learned man of hs day His great work was called Opus Majus in which lie urged Philosophical reform re- re form and in which lie many accurate prophecies about the day