Yes, that makes sense. Although the WIkipedia article on Roger Bacon has a section called "Changing interpretations of Bacon" that says:

In the 19th century it was a widely held interpretation that Bacon was a modern experimental scientist who emerged before his time. [...] However, in the course of the 20th century, the philosophical understanding of the role of experiment in the sciences was substantially modified. [...] As a result, the picture of Bacon has changed. One recent study summarized that: "Bacon was not a modern, out of step with his age, or a harbinger of things to come, but a brilliant, combative, and somewhat eccentric schoolman of the thirteenth century, endeavoring to take advantage of the new learning just becoming available while remaining true to traditional notions... of the importance to be attached to philosophical knowledge".[26] Bacon is thus seen as a leading, but not isolated, figure...

In other words, the things he did and wrote were always known correctly, but now it's known that others said similar things too. He wasn't a rationalist revolutionary or "ahead of his time", he was a point in an uninterrupted progression towards the modern idea of science.