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Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia - Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English astrologer, philosopher, statesman, spy, freemason and essayist. He was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and created Viscount St Albans in 1621; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death. He began his professional life as a lawyer, but he has become best known as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. His works establish and popularize an inductive methodology for scien ...

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Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia - Alice Barnham

Alice Barnham was the wife of Francis Bacon. Little is known about their marriage, perhaps as it was believed her husband was homosexual. Other related archivesFrancis Bacon, homosexual

Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia - Baconian method

The Baconian method is the investigative method developed by Francis Bacon. It is an early forerunner of the scientific method. The method was put forward in Bacon's book Novum Organum, which means New Organ, and was supposed to replace the methods put forward in Aristotle's Organum. Baconian method - Baconian Method. The Baconian method consists of procedures for isolating the cause of a phenomenon, including the method of agreement, method of difference, and method of concomitant variation. ...

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Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia - 1620

1620 - Events. September 6 - English emigrants on the Mayflower depart from Plymouth, England for the future New England and arrive at the end of the year. The Mayflower Compact is signed on November 11. November 8 - The Battle of White Mountain, the first battle in the Thirty Years' War, takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours. Francis Bacon publishes the Novum Organum Two officers of the British East India Company attempt to claim ...

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Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia - Blasphemy

Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of God. These may include using sacred names as stress expletivies without intention to pray or speak of sacred matters. Sometimes blasphemy is used loosely to mean any profane language, for example in "With much hammering and blasphemy, the locomotive's replacement spring was finally fitted.". In this broader sense the term is used by Sir Francis Bacon in the Advancement of Learning, when he speaks of "blasphemy against learning". Many cultures disapprove of speech or writi ...

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Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia - Amias Paulet

Sir Amias Paulet (1532-1588) was the son of Hugh Paulet and Philippa Pollard. In 1559 he was made Lieutenant Governor of the Island of Jersey, one of the Channel Islands, his father being Governor. He kept this post until 1573. His father died in that year, and Amias was then raised to his position as Governor, a post he held until his death. In 1576 Queen Elizabeth raised him to knighthood, appointed him Ambassador to Paris and at the same time put the young Francis Bacon under his charge. Amias was in this embassy until 1579. In 1580 he was appointed Keeper of Mary Queen of Scots by Elizabeth, and ...

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Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia - 1561

1561 - Births. January 6 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (died 1656) January 22 - Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, scientist, and statesman (died 1626) July 11 - Luís de Góngora y Argote, Spanish poet (died 1627) August 20 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (died 1633) August 24 - Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (died 1626) August 25 - Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer (died 1632) September 29 - Adriaan van Roomen, Bel ...

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Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia - Continental drift

The concept of continental drift was first proposed by Alfred Wegener. In 1912 he noticed that the shapes of continents on either side of the Atlantic Ocean seem to fit together (for example, Africa and South America). Francis Bacon, Antonio Snider-Pellegrini, Benjamin Franklin, and others had noted much the same thing earlier. The similarity of southern continent fossil faunae and some geological formations had led a relatively small number of Southern hemisphere geologists to conjecture as early as 1900 that all the continents had o ...

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Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia - Clay S. Jenkinson

Clay S. Jenkinson (born 1955) is an American humanities scholar and author who first achieved fame for his portrayal (first-person historical interpretation) of Thomas Jefferson. As co-founder of the modern Chautauqua movement, Jenkinson has also portrayed Sir Francis Bacon, Jonathan Swift, J. Robert Oppenheimer, John Wesley Powell, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Theodore Roosevelt, and Meriwether Lewis [1]. Jenkinson's public portrayals take the form of lengthy monologues followed by Q & A sessions as the character (in costume) featured

Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia - 1605

1605 - Publications. Francis Bacon, Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane. 1605 - Births. April 8 - King Philip IV of Spain (died 1665) April 18 - Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (died 1674) July 29 - Simon Dach, Prussian lyrical poet and writer of hymns (died 1659) August 8 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (died 1675) August 18 - Henry Hammond, E ...

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Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia - Corroborating evidence

Corroborating evidence is evidence that tends to support a proposition that is already supported by some evidence. For example, W, a witness, testifies that she saw X drive his automobile into a green car. Y, another witness, testifies that when he examined X's car later that day he noticed green paint on its fender. For more information on this type of reasoning see casuistry. Another type of corroborating evidence comes from using the Baconian method, i.e. the method of agreement ...

Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia - Idol

The term idol originates from the Greek eidolon: Something visible but without substance, a hollow form. It derives from Greek eid-, videre, to see, and is also related to eidos, a figure and eidea, an idea or imagination. Idol is used in various contexts: In religion, idols are man-made worshipped articles; their worship is called idolatry, the worship of hollow forms. The term was used by the Jewish historian Josephus. In the New Testament it is used to refer to he ...

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Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia - Confessio Fraternitatis

The Confessio Fraternitatis (Confessio oder Bekenntnis der Societät und Bruderschaft Rosenkreuz), or simply The Confessio, printed in Kassel (Germany) in 1615, is the second anonymous manifestos, of a trio of Rosicrucian pamphlets, declaring the existence of a secret brotherhood of alchemists and sages who were thought to be preparing to transform the political and intellectual landscape of Europe. The Confessio is a breviary about «the true Philosophy», it completes the earlier manifesto (Fama Fraternit ...

Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia - Great Architect of the Universe

Great Architect of the Universe (sometimes Grand Architect of the Universe as used in the public ritual for a Lodge of Sorrow) is a term used by Freemasons (a fraternity which welcomes initiates of every faith) to address God. Freemasonry uses metaphors relating to building and construction, as it claims to derive its theology from the construction of Solomon's Temple as relayed in Tanakh. God is also represented by the Hebrew letters Tetragrammaton in many Masonic tracing boards. ...

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Francis Bacon: Encyclopedia - Curiosity

Curiosity is any natural inquisitive behaviour, evident by observation in many animal species, and is the emotional aspect of living beings that engenders exploration, investigation and learning. In essence, "curiosity" is a term that describes an unknown number of behavioural and psychological mechanisms, which have the effect of impelling beings to seek information and interaction with their envi ...