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  1. Novum Organum; by Francis Bacon, Joseph Devey, 2010-08-24
  2. Francis Bacon: From Magic to Science (Volume 26) by Paolo Rossi, 2008-10-01
  3. Francis Bacon a Political Biography by Joel J. Epstein, 1977-03
  4. Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy by Stephen Gaukroger, 2001-03-19
  5. Looking Back at Francis Bacon by David Sylvester, Francis Bacon, 2000-09
  6. Francis Bacon: Herald of the New Age by Peter Dawkins, 1997-01
  7. Works of Francis Bacon. Essays, Valerius Terminus of the Interpretation of Nature, The Advancement of Learning, The Wisdom of the Ancients, Novum Organum / The New Organon & The New Atlantis (mobi) by Francis Bacon, 2008-12-12
  8. The Advancement of Learning (Modern Library Science) by Francis Bacon, 2001-10-02
  9. THE ESSAYS - Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon, 2009-02-06
  10. Francis Bacon - The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Ld. Verulam, Viscount St. Albans by Francis Bacon,
  11. Francis Bacon: In Coversation with Michel Archimbaud by Michel Archimbaud, 1994-01-01
  12. The Cambridge Companion to Bacon (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
  13. Francis Bacon (Modern Masters Series, Vol. 9) by Hugh Marlais Davies, 1986-05-01
  14. Francis Bacon's Inquiry Touching Human Nature: Virtue, Philosophy, and the Relief of Man's Estate by Svetozar Minkov, 2010-06-16

41. Sir Francis Bacon
While Renaissance men were rapidly expanding all the frontiers of knowledge—in geography, philosophy, medicine and astronomy—Sir francis bacon was devising
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While Renaissance men were rapidly expanding all the frontiers of knowledge—in geography, philosophy, medicine and astronomy—Sir Francis Bacon was devising a deductive system for empirical research which has earned him the title "the Father of Modern Science." Most scientists today still owe him a debt of gratitude. They repay this debt by giving his capsule biography in almost every text for high-school or college-level courses in most branches of science. But they carefully avoid mentioning that he was gay. Bacon did not marry until the late age of forty-eight, and contemporary figures relate that he was by preference homosexual. John Aubrey in his Brief Lives says quite bluntly that Bacon "was a pederast" and had "ganimeds and favourites" ("pederast" in Renaissance diction meant generally "homosexual" rather than specifically a lover of minors; "ganimed" of course derives from the mythical prince abducted by Zeus to be his cup-bearer and bed-warmer.) The Puritan moralist Sir Simonds D'Ewes (Bacon's fellow Member of Parliament) in his Autobiography and Correspondence discusses Bacon's love for his Welsh serving-men, in particular a "very effeminate-faced youth" whom he calls "his catamite and bed-fellow" ("catamite" is a corruption of "Ganymede"). The diary entry for 3 May 1621—the date of Bacon's censure by Parliament—reveals the full extent of Bacon's homosexuality, and is worth quoting extensively if only because it has been suppressed in the only printed edition of the D'Ewes's autobiography (not published until 1845), and has been studiously ignored by most of Bacon's modern biographers:

42. Francis Bacon - Free Online Library
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Francis Bacon was born on January 22nd, 1561 in London, England the son of the Keeper of the Great Seal for Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Nicholas Bacon, and his second wife. When he was twelve years old, Francis began Trinity College, Cambridge. He stayed from 1573 until 1575, leaving without a degree. After his father's death, Bacon studied law at Gray's Inn until 1582, when he became a barrister. Two years later, at the age of twenty-three, he was elected to Parliament. In 1597, Bacon published Essays Colours of Good and Evil , and Meditationes Sacrae . After Queen Elizabeth I's death and the ascension of James I in 1603, Bacon began his political career in earnest. He was knighted in 1603 and several honors followed: Solicitor General in 1604, Attorney General in 1613, Lord Chancellor in 1618, Baron Verulam in 1618, and Viscount St. Albans in 1621. Appointed to a succession of posts, Bacon was finally given the title of Keeper of the Great Seal, like his father before him. In 1620, Bacon published

43. Authorship Analysis (Contents)
francis bacon as Shakespeare. A scholarly pastiche.
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Francis Bacon as Shake-speare Cogency What's New? Reason, Fallacy, and Proof Essays: Of Truth Novum Organum: Preface Novum Organum: Book I, Aphorisms 1-68 Authorship Ascription "Art thou obdurate, flintie...?" Certaine Satyres: The Authour in prayse of his precedent Poem. Bacon Family Motto: "Mediocria Firma" "honors wracke" Certaine Satyres: REACTIO. Virgidemiarvm: Lib. II, Sat. I. Additional Virgidemiarvm "Labeo" passages Intent Advancement of Humanity Of the Interpretation of Nature: Proem Letter: "to bring about the better ordering of man's life" Letter: "my writings should not court the present time" A Choice of Emblemes: Scripta manent Essays: Of Great Place The Life of The Right Honourable Francis Bacon Francis Bacon: Viscount St. Alban Pandemic Comments on Variation of Design Letter: "I have taken all knowledge to be my province" Meditationes Sacrae: Of the Innocency of the Dove Poesy Education Wisdom of the Ancients: Preface Wisdom of the Ancients: Orpheus; or Philosophy Advancement of Learning: History, Poesy, Philosophy (2:1)

44. The Advancement Of Learning
First published as The tvvoo bookes of francis bacon, of the proficience and aduancement of learning, diuine and humane. To the King.
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Book I Book II Note: This Renascence Editions "imprint" is provided by arrangement with Dr. Hartmut Krech, and reproduces his text as recieved in its entirety without change other than to add the standard RE header and footer and enough HTML coding to present it as an HTML edition, in two files for ease of handling. Risa Bear, May 1998. EDITORIAL COMMENT: First published as "The tvvoo bookes of Francis Bacon, of the proficience and aduancement of learning, diuine and humane. To the King. At London: Printed for Henrie Tomes [...] 1605" Text based on G.W. Kitchin's 1861 edition. Paragraph sections according to J. Spedding's 1854 edition. Page numbering of J. Spedding's 1854 edition has been added in square brackets [ ] in the following manner: to avoid word separation, page numbers precede words that were separated in the original edition. Chapter and section numerals of W.A. Wright's 1869 edition have been included. Paragraph sections in Spedding's 1854 edition that were apparently omitted in Kitchin's 1861 edition and disregarded in Wright's 1869 textual analysis are marked as omissions [].

45. Francis Bacon On Artnet
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46. Francis Bacon Quotes - Artist
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Quotes by the famous Irish born British artist Francis Bacon born Francis Bacon - Dublin, Ireland - 28th of October, 1928 / Died - 28th of April, 1992 Popular Francis Bacon paintings include "Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion", " Portrait of Pope Innocent X ", " Painting ", " Two Figures ", and " Self Portrait ". To receive 2 famous art quotations 3 times every week, subscribe to the artists newsletter "Francis Bacon Quotes" artist quotes + You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all. + An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

47. Francis Bacon: Novum Organum (1620)
francis bacon. 1620. Note on the Text. AUTHOR S PREFACE. Those who have taken upon them to lay down the law of nature as a thing already searched out and
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OR TRUE DIRECTIONS CONCERNING THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE Francis Bacon [Note on the Text] AUTHOR'S PREFACE Anticipation of the Mind , the other Interpretation of Nature APHORISMS [BOOK ONE] I Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature. Beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. II Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand either give motion or guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions. III Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule. IV Toward the effecting of works, all that man can do is to put together or put asunder natural bodies. The rest is done by nature working within.

48. Poems Of Sir Francis Bacon
Though known for his essays, bacon also wrote poetry. Sample two poems and link to a site that discusses the authorship of Shakespeare s work.
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THE LIFE OF MAN
The world's a bubble; and the life of man less than a span.
In his conception wretched; from the womb so to the tomb:
Curst from the cradle, and brought up to years, with cares and fears.
Who then to frail mortality shall trust,
But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
Yet, since with sorrow here we live oppress'd, what life is best?
Courts are but only superficial schools to dandle fools:
The rural parts are turn'd into a den of savage men:
And where's a city from all vice so free,
But may be term'd the worst of all the three? Domestic cares afflict the husband's bed, or pains his head: Those that live single, take it for a curse, or do things worse: Some would have children; those that have them none; or wish them gone. What is it then to have no wife, but single thralldom or a double strife? Our own affections still at home to please, is a disease: To cross the sea to any foreign soil, perils and toil: Wars with their noise affright us: when they cease

49. Francis Bacon: Free Web Books, Online
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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
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A gamester, the greater master he is in his art, the worse man he is.
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"A good name is like precious ointment"; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers. Reputation A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation. Grace A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. War A liar is a bravo towards God and a coward towards men. Lying A man dies as often as he loses his friends. Friends A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage. Matrimony A man shall see, where there is a house full of children, one or two of the eldest restricted, and the youngest ruined by indulgence; but in the midst, some that are, as it were, forgotten, who many times, nevertheless, prove the best. Childhood Children A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

51. Francis Bacon & Secret Societies
The Novum Organum represents the summit of francis bacon s open works. It was to introduce a new method of logic to learning, to replace the old ways which
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The Secret Bard "Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority." Francis Bacon "But when I searched, I found no work so meritorious as the discovery and development of the arts and inventions that tend to civilise the life of man." Francis Bacon "That extra-ordinary genius, when it was impossible to write a history of what was known, wrote one of what it was necessary to learn." on Bacon E lizabethan England was anything but a free society. Like Continental Europe at the time, the authority of the Monarchies and the Church was undisputed. Sovereigns held the power of life or death over their subjects. Authorities encouraged informers - spies - to hand in heretics and political radicals, who were then tortured into confessions before their executions. England was split over religion, and its coming renaissance was but a flicker in the minds of a tiny learned elite. In the midst of this unstable background, Elizabeth 1 came to the throne in 1558. By the time Charles I succeeded to the Throne in 1625, English language had been transformed, and English commerce and trade led the world. America was being colonised, and foundations had been laid for a revolution in political thought and science. W.T. Smedley, a Bacon biographer, states:

52. ArtandCulture Artist: Francis Bacon
Born in Ireland in 1909, francis bacon spent his formative years in a nation wracked by the Sinn Fein uprising, an event that haunted him long after his
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54. Essays Of Francis Bacon
Essays by francis bacon June, 1996 Etext 575 Most recently updated September 1, 2003 *****The Project Gutenberg Etext of Essays of francis bacon*****
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55. Bacon
In 1932, the inventions by engineer francis bacon resulted in the first francis Thomas bacon began experimenting with alkali electrolytes in the late
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British engineer who developed the first practical hydrogen - oxygen fuel cells, which convert air and fuel directly into electricity through electrochemical processes. In 1932, the inventions by engineer Francis Bacon resulted in the first successful fuel cell devices. He improved on the expensive platinum catalysts employed by Mond and Langer with a hydrogen-oxygen cell using a less corrosive alkaline electrolyte and inexpensive nickel electrodes. In 1959, a quarter of a century later, Bacon and his coworkers were able to demonstrate a practical five-kilowatt system capable of powering a welding machine.
Francis Thomas Bacon was born at Ramsden Hall, Billericay, Essex, UK, on 21 December 1904, as a direct descendant of Sir Francis Bacon. He was educated at Eton College 1918-1922, specialising in science and winning the Moseley Physics Prize in 1922 and at Trinity College, Cambridge obtaining a third class in the Mechanical Sciences Tripos in 1925. Francis Thomas Bacon began experimenting with alkali electrolytes in the late 1930s, settling on potassium hydroxide (KOH) instead of using the acid electrolytes known since Grove's early discoveries. KOH performed as well as acid electrolytes and was not as corrosive to the electrodes. Bacon's cell also used porous "gas-diffusion electrodes" rather than solid electrodes as Grove had used. Gas-diffusion electrodes increased the surface area in which the reaction between the electrode, the electrolyte and the fuel occurs. Also, Bacon used pressurized gases to keep the electrolyte from "flooding" the tiny pores in the electrodes. Over the course of the following twenty years, Bacon made enough progress with the alkali cell to present large scale demonstrations.

56. Modern History Sourcebook: Ben Jonson (1573-1625): On Lord Francis Bacon, 1625
Footnote 1 francis bacon, Lord Verulam. One, though he be excellent and the chief, is not to be imitated alone; for never no imitator ever grew up to
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Introductory Note Dominus Verulamius [Footnote 1: Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam.] One, though he be excellent and the chief, is not to be imitated alone; for never no imitator ever grew up to his author; likeness is always on this side truth. Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking; his language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more presly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end. [Footnote 1: Severe.] [Footnote 2: Concisely.] [Footnote 3: Choice, disposal.]

57. MoMA.org | The Collection | Francis Bacon. (British, 1909-1992)
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58. The Francis Bacon Award In The History And Philosophy Of Science And Technology
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Offered biennially in the amount of $20,000, the Prize will be awarded to an outstanding scholar whose work continues to have a substantial impact on any of the three fields. The winner of the Bacon Prize will be invited to spend one term (3 months) at Caltech. Funds will be provided to compensate the winner’s home institution for the period of residence at Caltech, and the winner for costs of transportation and local housing. A biennial conference will bring together the best younger and established scholars in the area of the Bacon Visiting Professor’s specific interests. Previous awardees are: Lawrence Principe (2004), Johns Hopkins University, history of chemistry Alexander Jones (2006), University of Toronto, history of astronomy

59. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) British Writer.
(15611626) British writer. One of the pioneers of modern scientific thought, bacon s writings fall into three categories philosophical, purely literary,
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(1561-1626) British writer. One of the pioneers of modern scientific thought, Bacon's writings fall into three categories: philosophical, purely literary, and professional. British Writers - From UK @ Science Fiction @ 1 Francis Bacon and "The Four Idols" Introduction Intimidated by Francis Bacon? Even if he did live during one of the most exciting times in history, he is a difficult writer for some modern-day students of literature to understand. 2 Understanding "The Four Idols" We come to see that the idols of the tribe are universal human errors such as too uncritical a belief in regularities. 3 Discussion Questions - The Four Idols Are you still having a tough time understanding Francis Bacon and his use of rhetoric? Try defining some of the words that he uses. Archaic English words can sometimes complicate the process of understanding. Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Albans)

60. The New Atlantis - Francis Bacon’s God - Stephen A. McKnight
It is only fitting that we should launch this series with an analysis of francis bacon’s “New Atlantis,” the story that gave our journal its name and that
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Francis Bacon’s God Stephen A. McKnight Editor’s Note: With this issue, we are pleased to offer the first in our series of “Reconsiderations,” essays that reexamine great thinkers and great works at the intersection of science, technology, ethics, and politics. It is only fitting that we should launch this series with an analysis of Francis Bacon’s “New Atlantis,” the story that gave our journal its name and that helped give birth to the age of modern science and technology. n 1968 Howard B. White published Peace among the Willows This essay contends that it is a misunderstanding and distortion to view Bacon’s use of religious language and concepts as disingenuous and manipulative. It demonstrates that Bacon’s program of utopian reform, as presented in “New Atlantis,” is grounded in genuinely and deeply felt religious convictions, which serve as the foundation for his program of political and social prosperity through the advancement of learning. Developing the evidence to support a position that stands in marked contrast to prevailing interpretations requires careful attention to the details of Bacon’s utopian narrative. We need to examine each episode of the story, from the storm that brings European sailors to Bensalem, through the Europeans’ interviews with the Governor of the Strangers’ House and with Joabin, to the climactic audience with a Father of Solomon’s House. We need to pay careful attention to the accounts of Bensalem’s conversion to Christianity and to the early history of Bensalem, Atlantis, and other great sea-going civilizations. While only one of these, the conversion to Christianity, is explicitly religious, examination of the other episodes demonstrates Bacon’s pervasive use of two key religious themes:

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