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Jul 31, 2024 · Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England (1618–21), lawyer, statesman, philosopher, and master of the English tongue. He is remembered for the sharp worldly wisdom of a few dozen essays, for his power as a speaker in Parliament and in famous trials, and as a man who claimed all knowledge as his province.
He is famous for his role in the scientific revolution, promoting scientific experimentation as a way of glorifying God and fulfilling scripture.
- He started out as a furniture designer. Despite never going to art school – or finishing school for that matter – Bacon painted his first major work, Crucifixion (1933) aged just 24.
- He revelled in chaos. Bacon’s Reece Mews studio (since relocated to Dublin) is the manifestation of chaos. By the time he died, his studio floor was feet-deep in thousands of photographs and magazines – a mix of high and low cultural images, historic paintings, scientific drawings and photographs as well as reproductions of his own work – which he described as "compost".
- He loved... and he lost. Bacon felt as though he was followed by death, particularly in his love life. His partner Peter Lacy died of alcoholism in 1962, aged 46, while his subsequent partner, George Dyer, died of an overdose in 1971.
- He was allergic to animals. Bacon was fascinated by animals (over his career he painted monkeys, baboons, chimpanzees, dogs, owls, bulls, elephants, rhinos) but he was effectively allergic to most of them.
Sep 27, 2023 · Francis Bacon is best known for serving in high government and writing philosophical works which explained his approach to science: experimentation, collating data, and sharing findings all to improve everyone's knowledge and daily lives.
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Aug 9, 2023 · Francis Bacon served as attorney general and Lord Chancellor of England, resigning amid charges of corruption. His more valuable work was philosophical. Bacon took up Aristotelian ideas, arguing...
Lived 1561 – 1626. Francis Bacon discovered and popularized the scientific method, whereby the laws of science are discovered by gathering and analyzing data from experiments and observations, rather than by using logic-based arguments.
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Dec 29, 2003 · 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.
