Ten fun facts about Francis Bacon
Fact 1
He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England.
Fact 2
After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.
Fact 3
Bacon has been called the creator of empiricism.
Fact 4His works established and popularized inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method, or simply the scientific method.
Fact 5His demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things natural marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, much of which still surrounds conceptions of proper methodology today.
Fact 6Bacon was knighted in 1603 (being the first scientist to receive a knighthood), and created Baron Verulam in 1618 and Viscount St. Alban in 1621.
Fact 7He famously died by contracting pneumonia while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat.
Fact 8His studies brought him to the belief that the methods and results of science as then practized were erroneous.
Fact 9His reverence for Aristotle conflicted with his loathing of Aristotelian philosophy, which seemed to him barren, disputatious, and wrong in its objectives.
Fact 10Bacon had three goals: to uncover truth, to serve his country, and to serve his church.
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