First published in 1625, the British philosopher’s collected essays mix poetic aphorisms with prescient reflections on ‘false ...

One way to approach it is to look back to a time when scientific thinking did manage to initiate revolutionary changes in our outlook. In the 17th century, the philosopher Francis Bacon called for ...

At some point in or shortly after 1607, the opening passage of Francis Bacon's earliest surviving philosophical work, Valerius Terminus of the interpretation of nature – the first version of what ...

Perez Zagorin, Francis Bacon's Concept of Objectivity and the Idols of the Mind, The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Dec., 2001), pp. 379-393 ...

Identifying problems: Francis Bacon wrote a treatise in 1620 to encourage scientific study. (Courtesy: Science Source/Science Photo Library) The British scientist and philosopher Francis Bacon ...

Francis Bacon (who a quick Google search will reveal is not related to Kevin Bacon) was an English politician and natural philosopher best known as a father of empiricism and the scientific method.

After all, Bacon was a descendant of the Elizabethan philosopher of the same name and a pro when it came to grotesque and controversial phantasmagoria.

Was Bacon a hero or villain of science? (Courtesy: Sheila Terry/Science Photo Library) Francis Bacon – the Elizabethan philosopher, not the 20th-century painter – seems to inflame people. Hillary ...