Bacon

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• Sir Francis Bacon
• (1561-1626)

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Sir Francis Bacon

• Born 22 January 1561
• London, England
• Died 9 April 1626 (aged 65)Highgate,
  EnglandEra Renaissance philosophy
• Region Western philosophy
• School Empiricism
• Signature

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Early Life

• Bacon,the son of Nicholas Bacon,was educated at
  home in his early years owing to poor health
  receiving tuition from John Walsall, a graduate
  of Oxford with a strong leaning towards
  Puritanism.
• He entered Trinity College,Cambridge, on 5 April
  1573 at the of 12.He was also educated at the
  University of Poitiers.It was at Cambridge that
  he firs met Qeen Elizabet,who was impressed by
  his precocious intellect,and was accustomed to
  calling him the young Lord Keeper
• On 27 June he entered On 27 June 1576 he and
  Anthony entered de societate magistrorum at
  Gray's Inn. A few months later, Francis went
  abroad with Sir Amias Paulet.
• For the next three years he visited Blois,
  Poitiers, Tours, Italy, and Spain. During his
  travels, Bacon studied language, statecraft, and
  civil law while performing routine diplomatic
  tasks. On at least one occasion he delivered
  diplomatic letters to England for Walsingham,
  Burghley, and Leicester, as well as for the
  queen.

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Trinity College,Great Court with fountain.
                                     Trinity
College, Great Court with fountain
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• From 1584 to 1617 (the year he entered the House
  of Lords) he was an active member in the Commons.
  
• When he lost Elizabeth's favor over the subsidy
  affair of 1593, Bacon turned to the Earl of Essex
  as a patron. He served Essex as political
  advisor, but distanced himself from him when
  Essex's failure in the Irish campaign became
  evident and when his rebellion against the Queen
  finally brought him to the executioner's block.
• When in 1603 the Scottish king James VI succeeded
  the great Queen as James I of England, Bacon's
  time had come at last. He was knighted in 1603,
  married a young and rich heiress in 1606, was
  appointed Solicitor General in 1607 and Attorney
  General in 1613.
• In 1616 he became a member of the Privy Council
  and was granted the title of Lord Chancellor and
  created Baron of Verulam in 1618.
• When Bacon was created Viscount of St. Albans,
  he was impeached by Parliament for corruption in
  his office as a judge. His fall was contrived by
  his adversaries in Parliament and by the court
  faction. He lost all his offices and his seat in
  Parliament, but retained his titles and his
  personal property.

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Death

• On 9 April 1626 Bacon died while at Arundel
  mansion at Highgate outside London of pneumonia.
  An influential account of the circumstances of
  his death was given by John Aubrey.
• Some people, including Aubrey, consider these two
  contiguous, possibly coincidental events as
  related and causative of his death "The Snow so
  chilled him that he immediately fell so extremely
  ill, that he could not return to his Lodging ...
  but went to the Earle of Arundel's house at
  Highgate, where they put him into ... a damp bed
  that had not been layn-in ... which gave him such
  a cold that in 2 or 3 days as I remember Mr
  Hobbes told me, he died of Suffocation."
• At his funeral, over thirty great minds collected
  together their eulogies of him, which was then
  later published in latin.

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• Memorial to Francis Bacon, in the chapel of
  Trinity College, Cambridge

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Baconian Method

• The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by
  Francis Bacon published in 1620. The title is a
  reference to Aristotle's work Organon, which was
  his treatise on logic and syllogism. In Novum
  Organum, Bacon detailed a new system of logic he
  believed to be superior to the old ways of
  syllogism. In this work, we see the development
  of the Baconian method, consisting of procedures
  for isolating the form, nature or cause of a
  phenomenon, employing the method of agreement,
  method of difference, and method of concomitant
  variation devised by Avicenna in 1025.

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• Essay (1597)
• The Elements of the Common Law of England
   (1597)(aka Maxims of the Law)
• Sir Francis Bacon His Apology, in Certain
  ImputationsConcerning the Late Earl of Essex
   (1604)
• Valerius Terminus of the Interpretation of
  Nature  (wr.1604)

• De sapientia veterum liber  (1609)
• Novum Organum  (1620)
• The History of the Reign of King Henry the
  Seventh  (1622)
• The Translation of Certain Psalms  (1625)

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Sir Francis Bacon is often cited as a possible
author of Shakespeare's plays.

• The Baconians, hold that scholars are so focused
  on the details of Shakespeare's life that they
  neglect to investigate the many facts that they
  see as connecting Bacon to the Shakespearean
  work.

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Sir Francis Bacon's letter to John Davies, "so
desiring you to be good to concealed poets."
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"Truth can never be reached by just listening to
the voice of an authority."
"But when I searched, I found no work so
meritorious as the discovery and development of
the arts and inventions that tend to civilise the
life of man."
"That extra-ordinary genius, when it was
impossible to write a history of what was known,
wrote one of what it was necessary to learn."