Bacon, Francis

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1. An English author of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Bacon is known in philosophy for his defense of the scientific method (see Baconian method). In literature, he is known for his essays; they contain such memorable thoughts as “Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.”

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Bacon, Francis ² Cultural  

1. An English politician, scientist, and author of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; one of the leaders of the Renaissance in England. (See also under “Literature in English.”)

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Bacon has sometimes been mentioned as a possible author of the plays commonly attributed to William Shakespeare.

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Campbell’s Life of Bacon: “Francis was sickly and unable to join in the rough sports suited for boys of robust constitution,” if so he could not have described them so vividly and true; his poetry, such specimens as we have, is hardly-third rate, his prose on stilts, his history discredited. 

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B Bacon, Francis, Lord, fillip given to scientific study by, 324.

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Bacon, Francis, Lord; a believer in occult science, 646—649; his philosophy, 650, 660.

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Bacon, Francis, engraved title to Novum Organum, 288 Badius Ascensius, Jodocus, printer at Lyon and Paris, 170 Bagford, John, his copies from block-books, 19 B�mler, Johann, illustrated books, 104 Bankes, Robert, London printer, 216 Banks, Sir Joseph, his natural history books, 5 Barbier, Jean, partner of Julyan Notary, 214 Barcelona, early printing, 75; illustration, 162 Barclay, Alexander, translator of Sallust, 217; of Gringore’s Chasteau de Labeur, 230, 254, 256 Barker, Robert, Royal Printer, 216 sq.

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Also the article Bacon, Francis, and authorities there.

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