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Sir Francis Bacon

was born January 22, 1561. He died April 9,
1626. He was an English essayist, lawyer, statesman, and philosopher . He had a
major influence on the philosophy of science. When he was 12 years old, he
began studies at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1576 he entered Gray's Inn to
pursue a career in law. He was first elected in 1584.

Bacon's opposition to royal tax measures would probably have brought an
end to his political advancement, but he had the support of the Earl of Essex,
whose prosecution for treason he later managed. He was knighted in 1603 after
the succession of James I. Bacon and he became solicitor-general in 1609,
attorney-general in 1613, lord keeper of the great ...

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mastery over nature. It was intended to contain six parts: first a
classification of sciences; second a new inductive logic; third a gathering of
empirical and experimental facts; fourth examples to show the effectiveness of
his new approach; fifth generalization derivable from natural history; and a new
philosophy that would be a complete science of nature.

Bacon completed only two parts, however, the Advancement of Learning in
1605, later expanded as De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum (On the Dignity
and Growth of Sciences, 1620); and the Novum Organum (The New Organon, 1620),
which was to replace Aristotle's Organon. Sciences were under the general
headings of history, poetry, and philosophy. Their culmination was an inductive
philosophy of nature, in which proposed to find the natural laws, of bodily
action. To this end, he devised so-called tables of induction designed to
discover such forms with the goal of mastery over nature.

Although Bacon was not a great ...

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