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Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

English statesman and philosopher who served as Lord Chancellor, pioneering the empirical scientific method of investigation.

theorist

1561 - 1626

Publications

1627"Sylva sylvarvm : or, A naturall historie, in ten centuries"
1762"Novum organum scientiarum"
1875"Works; collected and edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis and Douglas Denon Heath."
1911"The advancement of learning, and The new Atlantis"
1955"Selected writings of Francis Bacon"