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 4
His works established and popularized inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method, or simply the scientific method.
Fact 5
His 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 6
Bacon 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 7
He famously died by contracting pneumonia while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat.
Fact 8
His studies brought him to the belief that the methods and results of science as then practized were erroneous.
Fact 9
His reverence for Aristotle conflicted with his loathing of Aristotelian philosophy, which seemed to him barren, disputatious, and wrong in its objectives.
Fact 10
Bacon had three goals: to uncover truth, to serve his country, and to serve his church.
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