Anaxagoras is a word that begins with A that Roger Bacon uses to spell out the word "brass" when attempting communication with a heard-of-hearing brazen head (The Face in the Frost, 14-5).
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Anaxagoras (c. 510 – c. 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Born in the ancient Greek city Clazomenae, Anaxagoras later came to Athens, where later he was charged with impiety and lived in exile in the Greek city Lampsacus. He introduced the concept of Nous (Cosmic Mind) as an ordering force, and gave a number of novel scientific accounts of natural phenomena. He produced a correct explanation for eclipses and described the sun as a fiery mass, as well as attempting to explain rainbows and meteors[1].
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- ↑ Wikipedia: Anaxagoras