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Revision as of 03:37, March 29, 2007
A great English friar and philosopher who wrote an encyclopedia and is hailed by many the father of modern science.
Roger Bacon believed that the Calendar of his time was out by 11 minutes every year, and that since 45 BC enough of those minutes had accumulated to put the Calendar out by ten days. This of course was a terrible thing to have happened, particularly for religious reasons. Imagine innocently going to Church for Sunday Mass, and not realising that it was actually a Wednesday!
Bacon worried, and rightfully so, that all religious functions were being celebrated on the wrong day. He pleaded to have the Calendar rectified. But it was not.
It wasn’t until 1582 – almost 300 years after Bacon's death - that Pope Gregory XIII had his people draw up a new Calendar. Bacon's calculations were adopted for this newly rectified Calendar, although he received no credit for it at all.
Until 1752, Britain and all of its colonies including America were living by Bacon’s measurements. [1]
References
- ↑ The first Scientist: A life of Roger Bacon, Brian Clegg