Francis Bacon

For other people named Francis Bacon, see Francis Bacon (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Roger Bacon.

The Right Honourable The Viscount St Alban PC
Portrait, 1617
Lord High Chancellor of England
In office 7 March 1617 – 3 May 1621 (1617-03-07 – 1621-05-03)
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 (1613-10-26 – 1617-03-07)
Monarch	James I
Preceded by	Sir Henry Hobart
Succeeded by	Sir Henry Yelverton
Personal details
Born	(1561-01-22)22 January 1561 The Strand, London, England
Died	9 April 1626(1626-04-09) (aged 65) Highgate, Middlesex, England
Resting place	St Michael's Church, St Albans
Spouse	Alice Barnham ​ (m. 1604)​
Parents	Sir Nicholas Bacon (father) Lady Anne Bacon (mother)
Education	Trinity College, Cambridge Gray's Inn
Notable works	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

• Romanticism and Bacon
• Scientia potentia est
• Works by Francis Bacon

Sources

Primary sources

• Bacon, Francis. The Essays and Counsels, Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon: all 3 volumes in a single file. B&R Samizdat Express, 2014.
• Andreae, Johann Valentin (1619). "Christianopolis". Description of the Republic of Christianopolis. New York, Oxford university press, American branch; [etc., etc.]
• Spedding, James; Ellis, Robert Leslie; Heath, Douglas Denon (1857–1874). The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St Albans and Lord High Chancellor of England (15 volumes). London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Secondary sources

• Adamson, Robert (1878), "Francis Bacon" , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3 (9th ed.), pp. 200–218
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Adamson, Robert; Mitchell, John Malcolm (1911), "Bacon, Francis", Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3 (11th ed.), pp. 135–152
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Pollard, Albert Frederick (1911). "Burghley, William Cecil, Baron". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). pp. 816–817.
• Cady, Joseph. 1992. "'Masculine Love', Renaissance Writing, and the 'New Invention' of Homosexuality". Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England: Literary Representations in Historical Context, ed. and intro. Claude J. Summers, 9–40. Research on Homosexuality. Originally published in a special issue of Journal of Homosexuality, 23(1–2):9–40, ed. John Paul De Cecco, by Haworth Press. PMID 1431077. doi:10.1300/j082v23n01_02. Reprinted, New York and London: Routledge. 2013. ISBN 978-1-56-023019-9 (pbk).
•  This article incorporates text from a publication in the public domain: Jackson, Samuel Macauley, ed. (1908). "Bacon, Francis". New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Vol. 2 (third ed.). London and New York: Funk and Wagnalls.
• Crease, Robert P. (2019). "One: Francis Bacon's New Atlantis". The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-29244-2.
• Fowler, Thomas (1885). "Bacon, Francis (1561–1626)" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 328–360.
• Peltonen, Markku (2007) [2004]. "Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban (1561–1626)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/990. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Further reading

• Agassi, Joseph (2013). The Very Idea of Modern Science: Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle. Springer. ISBN 978-94-007-5350-1.
• Farrell, John (2006). "6: The Science of Suspicion". Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-7406-4.
• Farrington, Benjamin (1964). The Philosophy of Francis Bacon. University of Chicago Press. Contains English translations of
  • Temporis Partus Masculus
  • Cogitata et Visa
  • Redargutio Philosophiarum
• Josephson-Storm, Jason (2017). The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-40336-6.
• Heese, Mary (1968). "Francis Bacon's Philosophy of Science". In Vickers, Brian (ed.). Essential Articles for the Study of Francis Bacon. Hamden, CT: Archon Books. pp. 114–139. ISBN 978-0208006240.
• Lewis, Rhodri (2014). "Francis Bacon and Ingenuity". Renaissance Quarterly. 67 (1): 113–163. doi:10.1086/676154. JSTOR 10.1086/676154. S2CID 170420555.
• Roselle, Daniel; Young, Anne P. "5: The 'Scientific Revolution' and the 'Intellectual Revolution'". Our Western Heritage.
• Rossi, Paolo (1968). Francis Bacon: from Magic to Science. University of Chicago Press.
• Serjeantson, Richard. "Francis Bacon and the 'Interpretation of Nature' in the Late Renaissance," Isis (December 2014) 105#4 pp. 681–705.

External links

• Klein, Juergen. "Francis Bacon". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• "Francis Bacon". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Works by Francis Bacon at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Francis Bacon at the Internet Archive
• Works by Francis Bacon at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• "Archival material relating to Francis Bacon". UK National Archives.
• Contains the New Organon, slightly modified for easier reading
• Lord Macaulay's essay Lord Bacon (Edinburgh Review, 1837) Lord Bacon
• Francis Bacon of Verulam. Realistic Philosophy and its Age by Kuno Fischer, translated from the German by John Oxenford London 1857
• Bacon by Thomas Fowler (1881) public domain at Internet Archive
• The Francis Bacon Society
• Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
• Journals of the Francis Bacon Society from 1886 to 1999
• English translation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's fictional The Lord Chandos Letter, addressed to Bacon
• The George Fabyan Collection at the Library of Congress is rich in the works of Francis Bacon.
• Francis Bacon Research Trust
• Sir Francis Bacon's New Advancement of Learning
• Montmorency, James E. G. (1913). "Francis Bacon". In Macdonell, John; Manson, Edward William Donoghue (eds.). Great Jurists of the World. London: John Murray. pp. 144–168. Retrieved 11 March 2019 – via Internet Archive.
• Letterbook and correspondence by Sir Francis Bacon at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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