in brief the life and work of Francis bacon
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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban,[a] Kt PC QC (/ˈbeɪkən/;[5] 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. His works are credited with developing the scientific method and remained influential through the scientific revolution.[6]
The Right Honourable
The Viscount St Alban
Kt PC QC
Somer Francis Bacon.jpg
Portrait by Pourbus the Younger, 1617
Lord High Chancellor of England
In office
7 March 1617 – 3 May 1621
Monarch
James I
Preceded by
Sir Thomas Egerton
Succeeded by
John Williams
Attorney General of England and Wales
In office
26 October 1613 – 7 March 1617
Monarch
James I
Preceded by
Sir Henry Hobart
Succeeded by
Sir Henry Yelverton
Personal details
Born
Francis Bacon
22 January 1561
The Strand, London, England
Died
9 April 1626 (aged 65)
Highgate, Middlesex, England
buried
St. Michael's Church, St. Albans
Mother
Lady Anne Bacon
Father
Sir Nicholas Bacon
Education
Trinity College, Cambridge (no degree)
Gray's Inn (call to bar, 1582)
Notable work
Works by Francis Bacon
Signature
Philosophy career
Other names
Lord Verulam
Notable work
Novum Organum
Era
Renaissance philosophy
17th-century philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Empiricism
Main interests
Natural philosophy
Philosophical logic
Notable ideas
List
Baconian method
Idola fori
Idola theatri
Idola specus
Idola tribus
Knowledge is power
Salomon's House
Influences
Aristotle, Palissy, Telesio, Cicero, Michel de Montaigne, Machiavelli, Paracelsus, Plato, Roger Bacon, Biringuccio, William Gilbert
Influenced
Basil Montagu, Encyclopédistes, Isaac Newton, John Locke, Robert Boyle, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Petty
Bacon has been called the father of empiricism.[7] His works argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature. Most importantly, he argued science could be achieved by use of a sceptical and methodical approach whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading themselves. Although his most specific proposals about such a method, the Baconian method, did not have a long-lasting influence, the general idea of the importance and possibility of a sceptical methodology makes Bacon the father of the scientific method. This method was a new rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, the practical details of which are still central in debates about science and methodology.
Francis Bacon was a patron of libraries and developed a functional system for the cataloguing of books by dividing them into three categories—history, poetry, and philosophy—which could further be divided into more specific subjects and subheadings. Bacon was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he rigorously followed the medieval curriculum, largely in Latin.
Bacon was the first recipient of the Queen's counsel designation, which was conferred in 1597 when Elizabeth I of England reserved Bacon as her legal advisor. After the accession of James VI and I in 1603, Bacon was knighted. He was later created Baron Verulam in 1618[4] and Viscount St. Alban in 1621.[3][b]
Because he had no heirs, both titles became extinct upon his death in 1626, at 65 years. Bacon died of pneumonia, with one account by John Aubrey stating that he had contracted the condition while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat. He is buried at St Michael's Church, St Albans, Hertfordshire.[8]