Francis Bacon | Biography, Contributions, Quotes & Death
Francis Bacon (Born on 22 January 1561 – Died on 9 April 1626), also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher, politician, lawyer, and essayist. Bacon was served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor under the reign of Elizabeth I Tudor and James I Stuart.Although disgraced politically in 1621, he nevertheless remained extremely influential through his works, especially as a philosophical lawyer and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.Francis Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. His works established and popularized inductive methods of scientific inquiry often referred to as the Baconian method, or simply the scientific method.His demand for a planned procedure of examining all things marked a new turn in the rhetoric...