Bacon, Francis, Viscount St. Albans
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born Jan. 22, 1561, London, Eng.
died April 9, 1626, London
He studied at Cambridge and at Gray's Inn. A supporter of the Earl of
Essex, Bacon turned against him when Essex was tried for treason. Under
James I he rose steadily, becoming successively solicitor general (1607),
attorney general (1613), and
lord chancellor (1618). Convicted of accepting bribes from those being tried in his court, he was briefly imprisoned and permanently lost his public offices; he died deeply in debt. He attempted to put natural science on a firm empirical foundation in the
Novum Organum (1620), which sets forth his scientific method. His elaborate classification of the sciences inspired the 18th-century French Encyclopedists (see
Encyclopédie), and
his empiricism inspired 19th-century British philosophers of science. His other works include
The Advancement of Learning (1605),
History of Henry VII (1622), and several important legal and constitutional works.
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