Francis

Bacon
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
•Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban,PC QC was an English
philosopher and statesman, who served as Attorney General,
and as Lord Chancellor of England
•His works are credited with developing the scientific method,
and remained influential through the scientific revolution.
•Born: January 22,1561 at Strand, London, England
•Died: April 9, 1626 at the age of 65
Highgate, Middlesex, England
• Bacon died of pneumonia
• Bacon is the first recipient of the Queen's counsel designation,
which was conferred in 1597 when Queen Elizabeth reserved Bacon
as her legal advisor. After the accession of King James I in 1603,
Bacon was knighted. He was later created Baron Verulam in 1618
and Viscount St. Alban in 1621.Because he had no heirs, both titles
became extinct upon his death in 1626, at 65 years of age. Bacon
died of pneumonia, with one account by John Aubrey stating that he
had contracted the condition while studying the effects of freezing
on the preservation of meat. He is buried at St Michael's Church, St
Albans, Hertfordshire.
• Bacon has been called the father of empiricism.His works
argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only
upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events
in nature. Most importantly, he argued this could be
achieved by use of a sceptical and methodical approach
whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading themselves.
While his own practical ideas about such a method, the
Baconian method, did not have a long-lasting influence, the
general idea of the importance and possibility of a sceptical
methodology makes Bacon the father of the scientific
method.
SCIENTIFIC WORKS
The Great Instauration
considered one of the fathers of modern science. He proposed, at
his time, a great reformation of all process of knowledge for the
advancement of learning divine and human. He called it
Instauratio Magna (The Great Instauration).

Novum Organum (New Method)

The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon
published in 1620. The title is a reference to Aristotle's work
Organon, which was his treatise on logic and syllogism, and is the
second part of his Instauration.
Advancement of Learning (Partition of Sciences)
This book would be considered the first step in the Great
Instauration scale, of "partitions of the sciences".

In this work, which is divided into two books, Bacon starts giving
philosophical, civic and religious arguments for the engaging in
the aim of advancing learning. In the second book, Bacon
analyses the state of the sciences of his day, stating what was
being done incorrectly, what should be bettered, in which way
should they be advanced.
Valerius Terminus: of the Interpretation of Nature

n this work of 1603, an argument for the progress of knowledge,

Bacon considers the moral, religious and philosophical
implications and requirements for the advancement of learning
and the development of science. Although not as well known as
other works such as Novum Organum and Advancement of
Learning, this work's importance in Bacon's thought resides in
the fact that it was the first of his scientific writings
REFERENCES

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_by_Francis_Bacon

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon