Excerpt from Stories of Inventors and Discoverers in Science and the Useful Arts: A Book for Old and Young Occasionally it has been but justice to set in their proper light the merits of old workers - as in The True History of Friar Bacon, who was a reformer of science centuries before his more illustrious namesake Francis Lord Bacon. In the Story of Paracelsus, too, a proper estimate is attempted of his discoveries, which have been, in some instances, obscured by his quackery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books ...
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Excerpt from Stories of Inventors and Discoverers in Science and the Useful Arts: A Book for Old and Young Occasionally it has been but justice to set in their proper light the merits of old workers - as in The True History of Friar Bacon, who was a reformer of science centuries before his more illustrious namesake Francis Lord Bacon. In the Story of Paracelsus, too, a proper estimate is attempted of his discoveries, which have been, in some instances, obscured by his quackery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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