Here's another installment of rationality quotes. The usual rules apply:
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Yes, that makes sense. Although the WIkipedia article on Roger Bacon has a section called "Changing interpretations of Bacon" that says:
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.