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Francis Bacon

1561 - 1626

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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon argued for the importance of natural philosophy, guided by the scientific method, and his works remained influential throughout the Scientific Revolution. Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. He argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature. He believed that science could be achieved by the use of a sceptical and methodical approach whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading themselves. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Francis Bacon is the 15th most popular philosopher (up from 16th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 8th in 2019) and the most popular British Philosopher.

Francis Bacon was a philosopher and scientist who is most famous for his work Novum Organum, which was published in 1620. Bacon's work was an attempt to reform the way that knowledge is gained and used.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Francis Bacon ranks 15 out of 1,267. Before him are Avicenna, Laozi, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Baruch Spinoza, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Augustine of Hippo. After him are Friedrich Nietzsche, Thales of Miletus, Heraclitus, Thomas Aquinas, Diogenes, and Erasmus.

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Among people born in 1561, Francis Bacon ranks 1. After him are Jacopo Peri, Luis de Góngora, Santorio Santorio, Katō Kiyomasa, Henry Briggs, Anna Maria of the Palatinate, John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen, Ii Naomasa, Thomas Fincke, Fukushima Masanori, and Adriaan van Roomen. Among people deceased in 1626, Francis Bacon ranks 1. After him are Nurhaci, Willebrord Snellius, John Dowland, William V, Duke of Bavaria, Ernst von Mansfeld, Adriaen de Vries, Paul Bril, Marino Ghetaldi, Pietro Cataldi, Isabella of Savoy, and Christian the Younger of Brunswick.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Francis Bacon ranks 9 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry VIII of England (1491), Adam Smith (1723), William Shakespeare (1564), Charles, Prince of Wales (1948), Charles Darwin (1809), and George VI (1895). After him are Charles I of England (1600), Charlie Chaplin (1889), George V (1865), James VI and I (1566), Elizabeth II (1926), and Edward VII (1841).

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Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Francis Bacon ranks 1. After him are John Locke (1632), Thomas Hobbes (1588), David Hume (1711), Thomas More (1478), Herbert Spencer (1820), Roger Bacon (1220), Jeremy Bentham (1748), William of Ockham (1285), Joseph Priestley (1733), John Wycliffe (1324), and Duns Scotus (1265).

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