Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Bacon , Roger (2010-09), The Letter of Roger Bacon Concerning the Marvelous Power of Art and Nature and the Nullity of Magic, Kessinger Publishing, Retrieved on 2011-12-14
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    14 DEC 2011

     Bacon's Recipe for Gun Powder

    Sed tamen salis petrae. VI. Part V. NOV. CORVLI. ET V. sulphuris, et sic facies toniitrum et coruscationem: sic facies artificium. But, however, of saltpetre take six parts, live of young willow (charcoal), and five of sulphur, and so you will make thunder and lightning, and so you will turn the trick. Bacon's recipe for Gunpowder, partly expressed as an anagram in the original Latin.
    Folksonomies: chemistry poetry
    Folksonomies: chemistry poetry
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    Presented in rhyme and in an anagram in Latin.

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