Bacon, Francis
BACON, FRANCIS (1561–1626), Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Albans; English statesman, essayist, and philosopher of science. A major political figure in early Stuart England, Bacon dr...
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Francis Bacon
1561-1626
British Philosopher and Lawyer
Francis Bacon's position in the history of science is still debated. To some he was the first spokesman for the new science of the modern ...
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626) English Statesman, Author, and Philosopher
Sir Francis Bacon, philosopher and Lord Chancellor of England, was one of the key thinkers involved in the development...
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Bacon, Francis
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) was born in London, England on January 22. His life combined politics and philosophy. As a politician, Bacon became a prominent lawyer, judge, member of...
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Bacon, Francis(1561–1626)
Francis Bacon, Baron Veralum, Viscount St. Albans, gained renown both as an English statesman and a natural philosopher. Bacon was instrumental in the replacement of A...
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The English artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was one of the most powerful and original figure painters in contemporary art, particularly noted for the obsessive intensity of his work.Francis Bacon (a ...
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Francis Bacon, whom Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie (1751-1780) praised for glimpsing "the general principles that must serve as the foundation of the study of nature" and whom Thomas Jefferson ca...
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"The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind itself is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is a double of that which is. The truth of being and t...
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Francis Bacon is a major figure in the intellectual tradition of Europe. Statesman, philosopher, supreme promoter of natural science based on observation and experiment, Bacon was the patron saint of ...
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Biography Essay"I have taken all knowledge to be my province," wrote Francis Bacon in 1592 to his uncle, Lord Burghley, the lord high treasurer. Bacon was just over thirty, but already he had begun th...
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The English philosopher, statesman, and author Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was the chief figure of the English Renaissance. His advocacy of "active science" influenced the culture of the English-spe...
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Francis Bacon wrote more than 30 works of philosophy and many other tracts on law and science. He is regarded by many as the father of British empiricism. In his Novum Organum (1620), he presents a ...
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Just like William Shakespeare, Sir Francis Bacon was also an Elizabethan writer from the 15th to 16th century, but he also did many other things besides being an author. Francis Bacon was an Englis...
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