During the Restoration, Bacon was commonly invoked as a guiding spirit of the Royal Society founded under Charles II in 1660. Alban in 1621.īacon's ideas were influential in the 1630s and 1650s among scholars, in particular Sir Thomas Browne, who in his encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646–72) frequently adheres to a Baconian approach to his scientific enquiries. His demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things natural marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, much of which still surrounds conceptions of proper methodology today.īacon was knighted in 1603 (being the first scientist to receive a knighthood), and created Baron Verulam in 1618 and Viscount St.
His works established and popularised inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method, or simply the scientific method. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.īacon has been called the creator of empiricism.
He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England.
"Madam," answered the Lord Keeper, "my house is well, but it is you that have made me too great for my house." This anecdote has been preserved by his son,3 who, had he as carefully retained the lesson of practical wisdom it contained, might have avoided the misfortunes and sorrows of his checkered life.įrancis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, QC, was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist, and author. He had inscribed over the entrance of his hall, at Gorhambury, the motto, mediocria firma and when the Queen, in a progress, paid him a visit there, she remarked to him that his house was too small for him. He discharged the duties of his high office with exemplary propriety and wisdom he preserved through life the integrity of a good man, and the moderation and simplicity of a great one. Sir Nicholas was styled by Camden sacris conciliis alterum columen he was the author of some unpublished discourses on law and politics, and of a commentary on the minor prophets. His father, Sir Nicholas Bacon, was an eminent lawyer, and for twenty years Keeper of the Seals and Privy Counsellor to Queen Elizabeth. FRANCIS BACON, the subject of the following memoir, was the youngest son of highly remarkable parents.
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