It is, I believe, a cherished belief of Englishmen that Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans, and sometime Lord Chancellor of England, invented that "inductive philosophy" of which they speak with ...

The National Portrait Gallery show is also an appreciation of Bacon’s innate understanding of how to make a painting work.

They note that Bacon’s gathering preoccupation with images of screaming mouths and animals dead and living was reflected in the surrealist art magazine Documents, launched by philosopher Georges ...

DURING an icy April in 1626, Francis Bacon, philosopher and a pioneer of the scientific method, was riding through the snowy streets of London when a curious question popped into his mind: would ...

WHEN, some years ago, I set out to write about Sir Francis Bacon, the undertaking loomed frighteningly large. Not only had Bacon been written about copiously for more than three hundred years, but ...

Bacon's view of the true office of history is very different from the theory which has lately prevailed to a considerable extent, and it would be well, perhaps, were its wisdom more considered.

Francis Bacon ( born 22.01.1561 - died 1626 ) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video ...

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Francis Bacon: Prophetic philosopher or scientific buffoon? Our series continues with one of the most divisive philosophers of the Renaissance. Was he someone to be admired, or simply a fool?