Francis Bacon

Tags: Philosopher.

Francis Bacon 1st Viscount St. Alban QC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher statesman scientist jurist orator essayist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. After his death he remained extremely influential through his works especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.Bacon has been called the creator of empiricism.

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birth date

1561-01-22

birth place

Strand London

death date

1626-04-09

death place

Middlesex, Highgate

era

Scientific revolution, English Renaissance

individualised GND number

118505696

influenced

Isaac Newton, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Jefferson, Encyclopédistes, Basil Montagu, William Petty

influenced by

Cicero, Aristotle, Empedocles, Niccolò Machiavelli, Parmenides, Plato, Pre-Socratic philosophy, Roger Bacon, Bernardino Telesio, Vannoccio Biringuccio, Bernard Palissy, Michel de Montaigne, William Gilbert (astronomer)

LCCN Id

n/79/100235

philosophicalSchool

Empiricism, Renaissance philosophy