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	Francis Bacon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bacon purchased a chicken (fowl) to investigate this possibility, but, during the endeavour of stuffing it with snow, contracted a fatal case of pneumonia.
		Bacon continued to receive the King's favor, and in 1618 was appointed by James to the position of Lord Chancellor.
		Bacon also wrote In felicem memoriam Elizabethae, a eulogy for the queen written in 1609 and various philosophical works which constitute the fragmentary and incomplete Instauratio magna, the most important part of which is the Novum Organum (published 1620).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Bacon (2323 words)

	Francis Bacon
		Francis Bacon (1561–1626) was one of the leading figures in natural philosophy and in the field of scientific methodology in the period of transition from the Renaissance to the early modern era.
		Francis Bacon was born January, 22, 1561, the second child of Sir Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper of the Seal) and his second wife Lady Anne Coke Bacon, daughter of Sir Anthony Coke, tutor to Edward VI and one of the leading humanists of the age.
		Bacon, V [1889], 547–59), he provides a summary in his Novum Organum (II, 50): “it has not been ill observed by the chemists in their triad of first principles, that sulfur and mercury run through the whole universe … in these two one of the most general consents in nature does seem to be observable.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/francis-bacon (8594 words)

	Francis Bacon (painter) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bacon's Soho life was portrayed by John Maybury, with Derek Jacobi as Bacon and Daniel Craig as George Dyer (and with Tilda Swinton as Muriel Belcher), in the film Love is the Devil (1998), based on Daniel Farson's 1993 biography The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon.
		Michael Blackwood, for the BBC, broadcast 16 November 1984 (used in interview 9, Interviews with Francis Bacon David Sylvester).
		Bacon was later to tell Stephen Spender that he had been very impressed by the work of a photographer who had produced striking effects using mirrors and natural light filtered through screens, although he could'nt remember the artist's name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Bacon_(painter) (7743 words)

	Francis Bacon [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Sir Francis Bacon (later Lord Verulam, the Viscount St. Albans, and Lord Chancellor of England) was born in London in 1561 to a prominent and well-connected family.
		Sir Francis Bacon (later Lord Verulam and the Viscount St. Albans) was an English lawyer, statesman, essayist, historian, intellectual reformer, philosopher, and champion of modern science.
		Bacon points out that recognizing and counteracting the idols is as important to the study of nature as the recognition and refutation of bad arguments is to logic.
	www.iep.utm.edu /b/bacon.htm (6065 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Francis Bacon
		Francis Bacon continued his legal studies, becoming a barrister in 1582 and a bencher (member of the governing body) at Gray’s Inn in 1586.
		Francis Bacon was at various times a lawyer, judge, political theorist, statesman, natural philosopher, essayist, historian, rhetorician and utopian.
		Francis Bacon became a member of parliament in 1584, but expended much intellectual and emotional capital in efforts to secure the position of Solicitor General.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=209 (646 words)

	Francis Bacon & Secret Societies
		Bacon had a goal to be that Governor - a philospher-king - as Francis 1 of England, until Elizabeth's death ended this dream.
		Francis fought in Parliament for union with the Scots to increase the strength of England against threats from the continent, and pushed for expansion of colonisation in America, notably Newfoundland and Virginia.
		Bacon, aware that his philosophy and schemes were not perfect, nevertheless laid the foundation for a new age of secular wisdom.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/b/bacon_francis.html (2041 words)

	Francis Bacon Image Gallery_The Popes_Bacon's Negative Hero
		Bacon is an artist for whom painting invariably means conflict and struggle: he is fighting all the time, even though he keeps a cool head and retains full control over what is happening on the canvas.
		Bacon painted the portrait of Pope Innocent X after Velazquez in 1951, and immediately followed it up with two [ I II ] further pictures based on the same image.
		In bacon's view Velazquez was definitive: conceiving their works in necessarily fragmentary terms, modern painters were fated to remain aware of a discrepancy that could never be resolved.
	www.francis-bacon.cx /themes/the_popes.html (1779 words)

	Francis Bacon
		Francis Bacon was the son of Nicolas Bacon, the Lord Keeper of the Seal of Elisabeth I. He entered Trinity College Cambridge at age 12.
		Bacon later described his tutors as "Men of sharp wits, shut up in their cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle, their Dictator." This is likely the beginning of Bacon's rejection of Aristotelianism and Scholasticism and the new Renaissance Humanism.
		January 22, born in London to Sir Nicolas Bacon, the lord keeper of seal, and the sister-in-law of Lord Burghley.
	oregonstate.edu /instruct/phl302/philosophers/bacon.html (636 words)

	The Galileo Project
		Francis was the second son by his second wife; by his first wife Sir Nicholas had had six children, three of them sons.
		Bacon's role in the trial of Essex is well known and has been the subject of much comment.
		Given Bacon's lack of income commensurate with his aspirations, I find it difficult to believe that he did not receive other rewards, in keeping with the universal practices of patronage, for the constant advice, formally composed, that he tendered to Essex, for the masques he composed, etc.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/bacon.html (1098 words)

	Francis Bacon Biography
		Francis Bacon was born October 28, 1909, in Dublin.
		The Bacon estate pursued a claim against Marlborough which was settled in 2002 with Marlborough agreeing to release to the estate all documents in its possession that belonged to Bacon or his estate.
		Bacon painted relatively little after his solo show in 1934 and in the 1930's and early 1940's destroyed many of his works.
	www.leninimports.com /francis_bacon_bio.html (866 words)

	Francis Bacon
		A comparison of the Droeshout Shakspere with portraits and engravings of Francis Bacon demonstrates the identity of the structure of the two faces, the difference in expression being caused by lines of shading.
		Bacon often used this animal as a play upon his own name, especially because the name Bacon was derived from the word beech and the nut of this tree was used to fatten hogs.
		Little doubt seems to exist in the minds of impartial investigators that Lord Bacon was the illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Leicester.
	www.prs.org /gallery-bacon.htm (1361 words)

	Sir Francis Bacon
		Bacon was born into a middle-class family in 1561, became a practising lawyer in 1582, and was appointed Queen Elizabeth's Counsellor in 1591.
		Bacon did not marry until the late age of forty-eight, and contemporary figures relate that he was by preference homosexual.
		Bacon rapidly rose to fame under King James I. He was knighted in 1603, made Solicitor General in 1607, and Burghley's death in 1612 probably cleared the way for his steep ascent.
	www.infopt.demon.co.uk /baconfra.htm (1650 words)

	Francis Bacon
		Francis Bacon came to London in 1925 and although he received no formal art training, he created a sensation in 1945 when he exhibited his Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (London, Tate Gallery) at the Lefevre Gallery in London.
		Bacon changed the face (literally) of portraiture, and this volume captures how and why he did it.
		Aside from his unpleasant images of corrupt and disgusting humanity, Bacon deliberately subverted artistic conventions by using the triptych format of Renaissance altarpieces to show the evils of man, rather than the virtues of Christ.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/B/bacon.html (473 words)

	Mystery of Francis Bacon
		Francis Bacon describes her as "A Saint of God." There is a portrait of her painted by Nathaniel Bacon, her stepson, in which she appears standing in her pantry habited as a cook.
		Francis Bacon was the author of two books which were published, one before he left England, and the other shortly after.
		Francis Bacon had recognised that the highest achievement was the act of creation.
	home.att.net /~tleary/mysterfb.htm (17229 words)

	Francis Bacon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francis Bacon was born at York House Strand, London.
		Bacon purchased a chicken (fowl) to investigate this possibility, but, during the endeavour of stuffing it with snow, contracted a fatal case of pneumonia.
		The parliament of April 1614 objected to Bacon's presence in the seat for Cambridge—he was allowed to stay, but a law was passed that forbade the attorney-general to sit in parliament—and to the various royal plans which Bacon had supported.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Bacon (2161 words)

	Francis Bacon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans ( January 22, 1561 â“ April 9, 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, spy, freemason and essayist.
		Francis Bacon was born at York House, Strand, London.
		Bacon purchased a chicken (fowl) to investigate this possibility, but, during the endeavour of stuffing it with snow, contracted a fatal case of pneumonia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Bacon (2161 words)

	FRANCIS BACON - LoveToKnow Article on FRANCIS BACON
		Bacon nowhere enters upon the questions of how such a science is to be constructed, and how it can be expected to possess an independent method while it remains the mere receptacle for the generalizations of the several sciences, and consequently has a content which varies with their progress.
		Bacon, as it turned out, had been mistaken in thinking that the country would be unable to meet the increased taxation, and his conduct, though prompted by a pure desire to be of service to the queen, gave deep and well-nigh ineradicable offence.
		Bacon, as attorney-general, delivered a speech, which has not been reported; but the king was informed that the arguments on the other side had not been limited to the special case, but had directly impugned the general prerogative right of granting livings.
	60.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BACON_FRANCIS.htm (15357 words)

	Francis Bacon (painter) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bacon's Soho life was portrayed by John Maybury, with Derek Jacobi as Bacon and Daniel Craig as George Dyer (and with Tilda Swinton as Muriel Belcher), in the film Love is the Devil (1998), based on Daniel Farson's 1993 biography The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon.
		In 1921, Ianthe Bacon was born at Farmleigh.
		Bacon later told Stephen Spender that, although he had known none of the artists living in Berlin at that time, he was very impressed by the work of a photographer (whose name he couldn't remember), who produced very striking effects by the use of mirrors and filtering daylight through screens.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Bacon_(painter) (7800 words)

	Francis Bacon - 27 January - 13 May 2001
		Francis Bacon - 27 January - 13 May 2001
	www.bacon.nl /site_engels/index_site.html (9 words)

	Francis Bacon Collection at Bartleby.com
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Authors > Nonfiction > Harvard Classics > Francis Bacon
		Bacon belongs to both philosophy and literature.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
		Whether turning a phrase or observing the politics of the day, the Essays epitomize Bacon as the master of English prose.
	www.bartleby.com /people/BaconF-phl.html (133 words)

	Francis Bacon
		Francis Bacon is an indispensable entry point into the conceptual proliferation of Deleuze’s philosophy as a whole.
		Gilles Deleuze had several paintings by Francis Bacon hanging in his Paris apartment, and the painter’s method and style as well as his motifs of seriality, difference, and repetition influenced Deleuze’s work.
		Illuminating Bacon’s paintings, the nonrational logic of sensation, and the act of painting itself, this work—presented in lucid and nuanced translation—also points beyond painting toward connections with other arts such as music, cinema, and literature.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/D/deleuze_francis.html (392 words)

	Francis Bacon Online
		Francis Bacon copyright requests handled by the Artists Rights Society.
		All images and text on this Francis Bacon page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
		Original works by Francis Bacon available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/bacon_francis.html (526 words)

	FRANCIS BACON: an extraordinary 20th Century British Painter
		s an artist whose early work was influenced by Bacon's paintings and images, I created "A Tribute to Francis Bacon," in 1995.
		like my picture of Francis Bacon enormously, perhaps because I like him so much, and admire his strange, tormented painting.
		t the time the site was created, there were not that many personal web sites on Francis Bacon.
	www.geocities.com /pantherprousa/bacon/about_bacon.html (517 words)

	Francis Bacon (painter) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francis Bacon (October 28, 1909- April 28, 1992) was a Anglo-Irish expressionist artist and painter.
		Bacon was disdainful of his work from before 1944 and destroyed the majority of it.
		Bacon was obsessed with the portrait, according to his own admission, and made a famous recreation of it in 1954 called Figure with Meat.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis+Bacon+(artist) (517 words)

	§9. Francis Bacon. XIV. The Beginnings of English Philosophy. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
		Francis Bacon was the younger of the two sons of Sir Nicholas Bacon, lord keeper of the great seal, by his second wife Anne, daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke and sister-in-law of lord Burghley.
		According to Bacon’s own account, therefore, the service of mankind to which he held himself born was to be carried out by devotion to three objects: the discovery of truth, the welfare of his country and the reform of religion.
		It was essential that the prosecution should not fail through the case being badly presented; and Bacon’s intervention was not merely excusable: it was his duty to safeguard the interests of the state, and to subordinate to them the claims of private friendship and gratitude in spite of the tragedy of the personal situation.
	www.bartleby.com /214/1409.html (517 words)

	Francis Bacon [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Sir Francis Bacon (later Lord Verulam, the Viscount St. Albans, and Lord Chancellor of England) was born in London in 1561 to a prominent and well-connected family.
		Sir Francis Bacon (later Lord Verulam and the Viscount St. Albans) was an English lawyer, statesman, essayist, historian, intellectual reformer, philosopher, and champion of modern science.
		Bacon points out that recognizing and counteracting the idols is as important to the study of nature as the recognition and refutation of bad arguments is to logic.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/b/bacon.htm (6065 words)

	MSN Encarta - Francis Bacon
		Bacon's method was to infer by use of analogy, from the characteristics or properties of the larger group to which that datum belonged, leaving to later experience the correction of evident errors.
		Bacon was born on January 22, 1561, at York House, in the Strand, London, and educated at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
		Bacon's philosophy emphasized the belief that people are the servants and interpreters of nature, that truth is not derived from authority, and that knowledge is the fruit of experience.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761575194 (719 words)

	Francis Bacon
		Francis Bacon (1561–1626) was one of the leading figures in natural philosophy and in the field of scientific methodology in the period of transition from the Renaissance to the early modern era.
		Francis Bacon was born January, 22, 1561, the second child of Sir Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper of the Seal) and his second wife Lady Anne Coke Bacon, daughter of Sir Anthony Coke, tutor to Edward VI and one of the leading humanists of the age.
		Bacon, V [1889], 547–59), he provides a summary in his Novum Organum (II, 50): “it has not been ill observed by the chemists in their triad of first principles, that sulfur and mercury run through the whole universe … in these two one of the most general consents in nature does seem to be observable.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/francis-bacon (8593 words)

	Francis Bacon (painter) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bacon's Soho life was portrayed by John Maybury, with Derek Jacobi as Bacon and Daniel Craig as George Dyer (and with Tilda Swinton as Muriel Belcher), in the film Love is the Devil (1998), based on Daniel Farson's 1993 biography The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon.
		Michael Blackwood, for the BBC, broadcast 16 November 1984 (used in interview 9, Interviews with Francis Bacon David Sylvester).
		In 1921, Ianthe Bacon was born at Farmleigh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Bacon_(painter) (7764 words)

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