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Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Francis Bacon was born January 22, 1561. He died April 9,
1626. He was an English essayist, lawyer, statesman, and philosopher . He had a
major influence on the philosophy of science. When he was 12 years old, he
began studies at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1576 he entered Gr ....
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.... nature.
Bacon completed only two parts, however, the Advancement of Learning in
1605, later expanded as De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum (On the Dignity
and Growth of Sciences, 1620); and the Novum Organum (The New Organon, 1620),
which was to replace Aristotle's Organon. Sciences were under the general
headings of history, poetry, and philosophy. Their culmination was an inductive
philosophy of nature, in which proposed to find the natural laws, of bodily
action. To this end, he devised so-called tables of induction designed to
discover such forms with the goal of mastery over natur ....
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