"He was intimately acquainted with the philosophical and scientific insights of the Arabic world, which was the most advanced civilization at the time." The is conjecture and unsubst antiated. He studied in English Universities and had no "intimate" acquaintance with th e Arabic world.
You've made a leap of logic. The Arabic world isn't the equivalent of the Arabic world's philosophy and scientific insight. --[[User:Nosforit|Ceriel Nosforit]] 15:22, 2005 May 1 (UTC)
Actually Roger Bacon was intimately familiar with esoteric Arab knowledge, religious, scientific and otherwise. He lectured at Oxford wearing what would now be called Sufi robes. For more details on this and unimpeachable sources, see Idries Shah's "The Sufi s", Octagon Press. --[[User:Kneeslasher|Kneeslasher]] 15:06, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
Shah is scarcely an umimpeachalbe source! bacon doesn not seem to ahve had more contact with Arabic culture than his contemproaries.
I notice also the article has been vandalized. I fixed the reference to Bacon as the inventor of bacon, but someone with more expert knowldge needs to go through it. <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/75.0.37.207|75.0.37.207]] ([[User talk:75.0.37.207|talk]]) 19:20, 11 September 2007 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->