Francis Bacon is a major figure in the intellectual tradition of Europe. Statesman, philosopher, supreme promoter of natural science based on observation and experiment, Bacon was the patron saint of the Royal Society and of Restoration science, the...

"The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind itself is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is a double of that which is. The truth of being and the truth of knowing is all one." Thus has Brian...

Francis Bacon, whom Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie (1751-1780) praised for glimpsing "the general principles that must serve as the foundation of the study of nature" and whom Thomas Jefferson called one of the three greatest men the world has...

"I have taken all knowledge to be my province," wrote Francis Bacon in 1592 to his uncle, Lord Burghley, the lord high treasurer. Bacon was just over thirty, but already he had begun the writing of his grand program for the renewal of human learning....

The English philosopher, statesman, and author Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was the chief figure of the English Renaissance. His advocacy of "active science" influenced the culture of the English-speaking world. Francis Bacon was born in London on...

The English artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was one of the most powerful and original figure painters in contemporary art, particularly noted for the obsessive intensity of his work. Francis Bacon (a collateral descendant of the great Elizabethan...