Francis Bacon
}}| image = File:Somer Francis Bacon.jpg | image_size = | caption = Portrait, 1617 | office1 = Lord High Chancellor of England | term1 = | monarch1 = James I | predecessor1 = Sir Thomas Egerton | successor1 = John Williams | office2 = Attorney General of England and Wales | term2 = | monarch2 = James I | predecessor2 = Sir Henry Hobart | successor2 = Sir Henry Yelverton | birth_date = | birth_place = The Strand, London, England | death_date = | death_place = Highgate, Middlesex, England | resting_place = | mother = Lady Anne Bacon | father = Sir Nicholas Bacon | spouse = | education = Trinity College, Cambridge
Gray's Inn | blank1 = Notable works | data1 = Works by Francis Bacon | signature = Francis Bacon Signature.svg | module = |region = Western philosophy |school_tradition = Empiricism |other_names = Lord Verulam |main_interests = |notable_ideas = }} |notable_works = ''Novum Organum'' }} }} Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, others, such as the ''Dictionary of National Biography'' (1885) and the 11th edition of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', spell the title "St Albans".}} 1st Lord Verulam, PC (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon argued the importance of natural philosophy, guided by scientific method, and his works remained influential throughout the Scientific Revolution.
Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. He argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature. He believed that science could be achieved by the use of a sceptical and methodical approach whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading themselves. Although his most specific proposals about such a method, the Baconian method, did not have long-lasting influence, the general idea of the importance and possibility of a sceptical methodology makes Bacon one of the later founders of the scientific method. His portion of the method based in scepticism was a new rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, whose practical details are still central to debates on science and methodology. He is famous for his role in the scientific revolution, promoting scientific experimentation as a way of glorifying God and fulfilling scripture.
Bacon was a patron of libraries and developed a system for cataloguing books under three categories – history, poetry, and philosophy – which could further be divided into specific subjects and subheadings. About books he wrote: "Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested." The Shakespearean authorship thesis, a fringe theory which was first proposed in the mid-19th century, contends that Bacon wrote at least some and possibly all of the plays conventionally attributed to William Shakespeare.
Bacon was educated at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, where he rigorously followed the medieval curriculum, which was presented largely in Latin. He was the first recipient of the Queen's counsel designation, conferred in 1597 when Elizabeth I reserved him as her legal advisor. After the accession of James I in 1603, Bacon was knighted, then created Baron Verulam in 1618 and Viscount St Alban in 1621.}} He had no heirs, and so both titles became extinct on his death of pneumonia in 1626 at the age of 65. He is buried at St Michael's Church, St Albans, Hertfordshire. Provided by Wikipedia
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Of the Advancement and Proficience Of Learning Or the Partitions Of Sciences by Bacon, Francis
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The Wisdome Of the Ancients by Bacon, Francis
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The Tvvoo Bookes Of Francis Bacon Of the Proficience and Aduancement Of Learning, Diuine and Humane ... by Bacon, Francis
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The Poems Of Francis Bacon, Baron Of Verulam, Viscount Of St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor Of England For the First Time Collected and Edited After the Original Texts ... By the... by Bacon, Francis
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Translation Of Certaine Psalmes Into English Verse By the Right Honourable, Francis Lo. Vervlam, Viscount St. Alban by Bacon, Francis
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The Works of Francis Bacon. by Bacon, Francis
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Saggi morali del Signore Francesco Bacono, cavagliero inglese, Gran Cancelliero d'Inghilterra. : Con vn'altro suo trattato Della sapienza degli antichi. Tradotti in Italiano by Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
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Saggi morali del Signore Francesco Bacono, cavagliero inglese, Gran Cancelliero d'Inghilterra. : Con vn'altro suo trattato Della sapienza degli antichi. Tradotti in Italiano. by Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
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The essays or counsels, civil and moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban : With a table of the colours of good and evil. Whereunto is added The wisdom of the... by Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
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The essays, or councils, civil and moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban : With a table of the colours of good and evil. And a discourse of the wisdom of th... by Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
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Reading on the statute of uses. by Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
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Examples of a treatise on universal justice / by Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
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