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and 1625), he would still rate among the top echelon of
17th-century English authors. And so wher writings, e.g., his histories,
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Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon(1561-1626)
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans,[1] KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.
that Bacon did not write the works traditionally
attributed to William Shakespeare. Even so, the Lord
Chancellor’s high place in the history of English
literature as well as his influential role in the
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Position in the history of
literature
Despite the fanatical claims (and very un-Baconian
credulity) of a few admirers, it is a virtual certainty
among its finest masters (alongside names like Johnson,
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Bacon’s Style
Bacon’s style, though elegant, is by no means as simple as it seems or as it is often described. In fact it is actually a fairly complex affair that achieves its air of ease and clarity more through its balanced cadences, natural metaphors, and carefully arranged symmetries than through the use of plain words, commonplace ideas, and straightforward syntax. (In this connection it is noteworthy that in the revised versions of the essays Bacon seems to have deliberately disrupted many of his earlier balanced effects to produce a style that is actually more jagged and, in effect, more challenging to the casual reader.)
letters, and especially his major philosophical and
scientific works, we must surely place him in the first
rank of English literature’s great men of letters and
Bacon was knighted in 1603, and created both the Baron Verulam in 1618, and the Viscount St Alban in 1621; as he died without heirs both peerages became extinct upon his death. He famously died of pneumonia contracted while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat.
Bacon has been called the father of empiricism.[2] His works established and popularised inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method, or simply the scientific method. His demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things natural marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, much of which still surrounds conceptions of proper methodology today. His dedication probably led to his death, bringing him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments.
development of English prose style remain well-
established and secure. Indeed even if Bacon had
produced nothing else but his masterful Essayes (first
published in 1597 and then revised and expanded in 1612