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Roger Bacon: The Friar Who Gave Europe Its First Gunpowder Recipe

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Roger Bacon knew about gunpowder roughly 200 years before Europeans started shooting each other with it in any serious organized way. That gap between "someone wrote it down" and "someone built a weapon around it" is one of the more interesting stretches in firearms history — and it's easy to forget how much institutional friction sat in the middle of it. We have an example of these things in that children's toy which is made in many parts of the world... From the violence of that salt calle...

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Roger Bacon: The Friar Who Gave Europe Its First Gunpowder Recipe

Roger Bacon (c. 1219/20–c. 1292), known by the posthumous scholastic accolade Doctor Mirabilis—"Wonderful Teacher"—was a medieval English polymath, philosopher, and Franciscan friar who holds a specific and non-negotiable place in the story of firear

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