Philosopher · Early modern period · England
Francis Bacon
1561–1626
English statesman and writer who rose to Lord Chancellor under James I, then fell on a bribery charge. His Novum Organum called for a new logic of experiment to replace Aristotle's. He lived 1561 to 1626.
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- Born
- 1561, London, England.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Francis Bacon
- Died
- 1626, London, of a chill caught stuffing a chicken with snow in an experiment.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Francis Bacon
- School
- Empiricism, at its programmatic beginning.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Francis Bacon
- Known for
- The idols of the mind, the biases that corrupt thinking, and the method of induction from experiment.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Francis Bacon
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