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	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)

	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)

	Francis Bacon - Philosopher - Resources
		Bacon's inductive methodology involves presence, absence, and degrees, as presented in the three "Tables of Comparative Instances." The "Table of Presence" (agreement) involves examining the grouping of similar instances of a phenomena (things that irradiate heat) and gathering other circumstances that are common amongst them (the movement of particles).
		Bacon's idea of such an approach is made metaphorically in his aphorism of the ant, the spider and the bee.
		Bacon here introduces a claim against what he sees as an underlying universalism in human perception, pointing out that perceptions are based purely on the view of an individual.
	www.egs.edu /resources/bacon-resources.html (808 words)

	Francis Bacon
		Francis Bacon was a famous English essayist, lawyer, philosopher and statesman who had a major influence on the philosophy of science.
		Bacon retained James's favor by steadfast defense of royal prerogative, but in 1621 he was found guilty of accepting bribes and was removed from his offices.
		Philosophically, Bacon sought to purge the mind of what he called "idols," or tendencies to error.
	www.uic.edu /depts/quic/history/francis_bacon.html (351 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Francis Bacon (1561)
		Francis Bacon started out his professional life as a lawyer, and his philosophy of law was one of absolute duty to the Sovereign, but he is most well known as an advocate and defender of the scientific revolution.
		As philosopher and man of letters Bacon's fame is in bright contrast to his sad failure in public life.
		This is the "anticipation of nature." To it Bacon opposes the "interpretation of nature." Nature is to be interpreted, not by the use of the deductive syllogism, but by the induction of facts, by a gradual ascent from facts, through intermediate laws called "axioms," to the forms of nature.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=117 (1126 words)

	Francis Bacon (1561-1626).
		Francis Bacon's major contribution to philosophy was his application of induction, the approach used by modern science, rather than the a priori method of medieval scholasticism.
		Bacon delineated the principles of the inductive method, which constituted a breakthrough in the approach to science, even though philosophers and scientists of the day, - and seemingly today, yet - repudiated both his theories and methodology, alike.
		("I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense.") Francis Bacon went into retirement and died in 1626; he was buried at Saint Michael's Church in St. Albans, just north of London, Hertfordshire.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Bacon.htm (2604 words)

	Francis Bacon [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		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.
		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.
		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)

	AllRefer.com - Francis Bacon, English philosopher (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Francis Bacon 1561–1626, English philosopher, essayist, and statesman, b.
		He was the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, lord keeper to Queen Elizabeth I. Francis Bacon was a member of Parliament in 1584 and his opposition to Elizabeth's tax program retarded his political advancement; only the efforts of the earl of Essex led Elizabeth to accept him as an unofficial member of her Learned Council.
		Bacon's contribution to philosophy was his application of the inductive method of modern science.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BaconF-phl.html (500 words)

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		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, Viscount Saint Alban -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Bacon, Francis, Viscount Saint Alban (or Albans), Baron of Verulam
		Bacon, Francis, Viscount Saint Alban, Baron of Verulam.
		A lawyer, statesman, philosopher, and master of the English tongue, he is remembered in literary terms for the sharp worldly wisdom of a few dozen essays; by students of constitutional history for his power as a speaker in Parliament and in famous trials and as James I's lord chancellor; and intellectually…
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9108408 (826 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)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Baconian System of Philosophy
		This system takes its name from its founder, Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, statesman and philosopher, born 22 January, 1561; died 9 April, 1626.
		The philosophy of Lord Bacon is too fragmentary to lend itself to criticism other than discursive, too largely conceived to be brushed aside with a mere line of comment, too full of symbolic expression to be exactly and briefly set down.
		It might be said that Bacon suffered most in it from falling into the very pitfalls that he indicated as dangerous to others.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02192a.htm (1621 words)

	Baconian Evidence for Shakespeare Authorship
		Francis Bacon in Letter to his Uncle, Lord Burleigh.
		Bacon's style varied almost as much as his handwriting; but it was influenced more by the subject matter than by youth or old age.
		Bacon applied to the records office for the loan of archive documents relating to the reign of Henry VIII.
	www.sirbacon.org /links/evidence.htm (1452 words)

	Biographies
		Francis Bacon is the Chief figure of the English Renaissance.
		Francis Bacon studied law at Cambridge and became Lord Chancellor in 1618.
		Bacon was violently opposed to speculative philosophies and argued that the only knowledge of importance to man was empirically rooted in the natural world.
	www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/people_n2/persons6_n2/bacon.html (169 words)

	The Francis Bacon Gallery
		At the core of this output was Sir Francis Bacon, a prodigious writer and philosopher.
		By opening the rational world to the creative mind, Bacon set the foundations upon which modern society has been built.
		Dissent in Renaissance England was a risky proposition, so Bacon used pen names to disguise his more provocative works.
	www.sirbacon.org /gallery/gallery.html (237 words)

	Francis Bacon Image Gallery_Chronology_1909-69
		But Picasso's influence on Bacon's work was much more obvious than the 'orthodox' surrealism represented by Penrose himself or by Nash in his lyrical interpretation, and it is hardly surprising that, even then, Bacon was considered to be too involved with his own traumas and fascinations to be part of a general movement.
		Bacon uses the proceeds to escape from London and settle in Monte Carlo.
		Work from this period has often been discounted by Bacon, the artist feeling that their was too great a gap between his way of seeing the world and his ability to convey it on canvas.
	www.francis-bacon.cx /biography/bio1.html (3072 words)

	Francis Bacon
		Francis Bacon was a philosopher of science, a lawyer, and a politician.
		Bacon held some controversial views on religion, which he judged to be unimportant in comparison with science, and was broadly in favour of religious tolerance.
		Bacon’s most significant contribution to philosophy was his pioneering of empiricism.
	www.philosophyofreligion.info /bacon.html (192 words)

	FRANCIS BACON
		Subsequent philosophers found it necessary to meet this problem in the presentation of their system of thought.
		As a philosopher he stressed the empirical method of science for arriving at reliable knowledge.
		The emphasis he placed upon observation and experimentation gave induction a higher role in the reasoning processes than deduction, which ruled human thinking from classical times on.
	www.cals.ncsu.edu /agexed/aee501/bacon.html (474 words)

	Francis Bacon at PhilosophyClassics.com -- essays, resources
		Francis Bacon Research Trust -- Several short essays on Bacon, along with quotes, pictures, and information about the Trust.
		Blupete - Biographies - Francis Bacon -- A biography, selection of quotes, and key dates.
		Our Civilisation: Sir Francis Bacon -- A sectionalised overview of Bacon and his works, by Max Patrick.
	www.philosophyclassics.com /philosophers/Bacon (548 words)

	Philosophical Dictionary: Babbage-Bayle
		Bacon warned that effective reasoning must be freed from the "idolatrous" influence of personal interest, human nature, social conventions, and academic philosophy.
		Bacon became Lord Chancellor of England in 1618, but was driven immediately from office under charges of official corruption.
		}, Bacon described the far-reaching social consequences of his epistemological program.
	www.philosophypages.com /dy/b.htm (865 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 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 Quotes and Quotations compiled by GIGA
		Francis Bacon Quotes and Quotations compiled by GIGA
	www.giga-usa.com /quotes/authors/francis_bacon_a001.htm (628 words)

	Academic Directory on Bacon, Francis
		Francis Avelling wrote this synopsis of Bacon's work and influence for the Catholic Encyclopedia.
		The Skeptical Enquirer: Francis Bacon and the True Ends of Skepticism
		This entry on Bacon's life and work, which includes links to related topics, was written by L. Jonathan Cohen.
	www.alllearn.org /er/tree.jsp?c=40161 (479 words)

	Francis Bacon - Wikiquote
		Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, statesman, and essayist
		Wikisource has original works written by or about Francis Bacon.
		Entertain hopes; mirth rather than joy; variety of delights, rather than surfeit of them; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature."
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Francis_Bacon (794 words)

	Francis Bacon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francis Bacon (philosopher) (1561—1626), Elizabethan philosopher, statesman and essayist
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Bacon (105 words)

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	Daily Celebrations ~ Francis Bacon, Rising to Great Places ~ April 9 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire
		Thomas Jefferson called Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) "one of the three greatest men the world has known" and French philosopher Voltaire praised Bacon as "the father of experimental philosophy."
		Born on this day in London, the esteemed Sir Francis was a scholar, scientist, and philosopher who dedicated his life to the renewal of education.
		Bacon is best known for developing the "new" scientific method of solving problems with inductive logic.
	www.dailycelebrations.com /040903.htm (201 words)

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