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Francis Bacon(1561-1626)
General introduction
Versatile Bacon
Achievements
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Sir Francis Bacon
born in London in 1561, a prominent and well-connected family educated at home at the family estate at Gorham bury in Herfordshire. In 1573, at the age of just twelve, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge In 1576 began reading law at Gray’s Inn , completed his law degree in 1582, in 1588 he was named lecturer in legal studies at Gray’s Inn,and elected to Parliament in 1584 as a member for Melcombe in Dorsetshire.
• Induction implies drawing knowledge from the natural world through experimentation, observation, and testing of hypotheses. In the context of his time, such methods were connected with the occult trends of hermeticism and alchemy
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Bacon’s essays
• His Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature, which has been recognized as an important landmark in the development of English prose.
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Philosopher Bacon
The Baconian System of Philosophy
• best known as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. His works establish and popularize an inductive methodology for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method.
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Bacon’s achievements
• founder of modern science in England. • * famous for his “Essays”; the first English
essayist. • 1597, 10 essays published. • 1605, “Advancement of Learning”. • 1620, “New Instrument”: induction, the
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From 1604-1618,he filled a succession of high-pro positions:
• 1604 – Appointed King’s Counsel. • 1607 – Named Solicitor General. • 1608 – Appointed Clerk of the Star Chamber. • 1613 – Appointed Attorney General. • 1616 – Made a member of the Privy Council. • 1617 – Appointed Lord Keeper of the Royal
inductive method of reasoning. 归纳法 • 1625, collection of 58 essays with wide
variety of subjects: love, truth, friendship, parents and children, beauty, studies, riches, youth and age, garden, death, etc.
Seal (his father’s former office). • 1618 – Made Lord Chancellor.
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Francis Bacon, a representative of the English renaissance, is a well-known philosopher , scientist and essayist. He began his professional life as a lawyer, but he has become best known as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution
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Painter Bacon
• was an Irish-born figurative painter of English descent
• known for his bold, austere, graphic and often tortured imagery.
• Bacon's abstract figures typically appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript baቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱkgrounds.
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