Bacon's Bridge". Bacon is also honoured at Oxford by a plaque affixed to the wall of the new Westgate shopping centre. In popular culture To commemorate the 700th anniversary of Bacon's approximate year of birth, Prof. J. Erskine wrote the biographical play A Pageant of the Thirteenth Century, which was performed and published by Columbia University in 1914. A fictionalised account of Bacon's life and times also appears in the second book of James Blish's After Such Knowledge trilogy, the 1964 Doctor Mirabilis. Bacon serves as a mentor to the protagonists of Thomas Costain's 1945 The Black Rose, and Umberto Eco's 1980 The Name of the Rose. Greene's play prompted a less successful sequel John of Bordeaux and was recast as a children's story for James Baldwin's 1905 Thirty More Famous Stories Retold. "The Brazen Head of Friar Bacon" also appears in Daniel Defoe's 1722 Journal of the Plague Year, Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1843 "The Birth-Mark" and 1844 "The Artist of the Beautiful", William Douglas O'Connor's 1891 "The Brazen Android" (where Bacon devises it to terrify King Henry into accepting Simon de Montfort's demands for greater democracy), John Cowper Powys's 1956 The Brazen Head, and Robertson Davies's 1970 Fifth Business. See also Baco, a lunar crater named for Roger Bacon History of geomagnetism, of translation, of the scientific method, and of science in the Middle Ages John of St Amand List of Catholic clergy scientists Oxford Franciscan school Roger Bacon High School Vitello Wilfrid Voynich Notes References Citations Sources Primary sources . volume I volume II . . . Reference works . . . . . . Secondary sources . . . . Cerqueiro, Daniel. Roger Bacon y la Ciencia Experimental. Buenos Aires; Ed.P.Ven. 2008.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . External links "Roger Bacon" – In Our Time 2017 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia: Bacon, Roger Roger Bacon Quotes at Convergence Roger Bacon: On Experimental Science, 1268 Brehm, Edmund A., "Roger Bacon's Place in the History of Alchemy" classic wood engraving of Roger Bacon's visage, appears in Munson and Taylor's "Jane's History of Aviation" c.1972 1220 births 1292 deaths 13th-century alchemists 13th-century astrologers 13th-century astronomers 13th-century English Roman