Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon• Life • Legacy • Works

Francis

Bacon

January 22, 1561Sir Francis Bacon was born at Strand, London,

United Kingdom.

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Lady Anne Cooke Sir Nicholas BaconLord Keeper of the Seal

1573

Francis bacon at the age of twelve entered Trinity College.

1576

• He began reading Law at Gray’s Inn. • "Men of sharp wits, shut up in their cells of a few

authors, chiefly Aristotle, their Dictator.

1579He lost his father and since he was the youngest that basically left him penniless.

Took position as assistant to Amias Paulet, British ambassador to France

1577

Sir Amias Paulet

1581• Became a member for Cornwall in the House

of Commons

1584• Wrote A Letter of Advice to Queen Elizabeth

1588

He was named lecturer in legal studies at Gray’s Inn

1582

He completed his Law Degree

1593• His blunt criticism of a new tax rates

resulted in an unfortunate setback to his career expectations

• Elizabeth eventually relented to the extent of appointing Bacon her Extraordinary Counsel in 1596.

Queen Elizabeth I dies on March 24th 1603 of blood poisoning

1603

1606He married Alice Barnham

1617

•Appointed Lord Keeper of the Royal Seal

1621• He was arrested and

charged with bribery.• After pleading guilty, he

was heavily fined and sentenced into prison term in the Tower of London.

1618He was made Lord Chancellor

April 9, 1626Sir Francis Bacon Dies• Bacon dies at the

age of 55 and died of pneumonia at Arundel mansion at Highgate.

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• Francis Bacon is often called the father of modern science.

• Baconian method- inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry. SCIENTIFIC METHOD

• He is the philosophical inspiration behind the progress of the Industrial age.

He authored several books and essays about law, religious, moral and civil meditations.

WORKS

Writing Career

A Letter of Advice to Queen Elizabeth-Bacon’s first political memorandum

1597- Essayes-First publication of Bacon which is a

collection of essays about politics

• 1. Of Truth• 2. Of Death• 3. Of Unity in Religion• 4. Of Revenge• 5. Of Adversity• 6. Of Simulation and Dissimulation• 7. Of Parents and Children• 8. Of Marriage and Single Life• 9. Of Envy• 10. Of Love• 11. Of Great Place• 12. Of Boldness• 13. Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature• 14. Of Nobility• 15. Of Seditions• 16. Of Atheism• 17. Of Superstition• 18. Of Travel• 19. Of Empire• 20. Of Counsel

• 21. Of Delays• 22. Of Cunning• 23. Of Wisdom for a Man's Self• 24. Of Innovations• 25. Of Dispatch• 26. Of Seeming Wise• 27. Of Friendship• 28. Of Expense• 29.

Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates

• 30. Of Regiment of Health• 31. Of Suspicion• 32. Of Discourse• 33. Of Plantations• 34. Of Riches• 35. Of Prophecies• 36. Of Ambition

• 37. Of Masques and Triumphs• 38. Of Nature in Men• 39. Of Custom and Education• 40. Of Fortune• 41. Of Usury• 42. Of Youth and Age• 43. Of Beauty• 44. Of Deformity• 45. Of Building• 46. Of Gardens• 47. Of Negotiating• 48. 0f Followers and Friends• 49. Of Suitors• 50. Of Studies• 51. Of Faction• 52.

Of Ceremonies, and Respects

• 53. Of Praise• 54. Of Vain-glory• 55.

Of Honor and Reputation• 56. Of Judicature• 57. Of Anger• 58. Of Vicissitude of Things• 59. Of Fame• 60.

A Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases

The Great InstaurationHe 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)..

The Advancement of

Learning

Wisdom of the

Ancients

Novum Organum

• The second part of Bacon's larger work, the Great Instauration

• Book Two is a detailed explanation of Bacon's method, using various examples.

The History of Henry VII

Historical work for Prince

Charles

The New Atlantis

Published in Latin (as Nova Atlantis) in 1624 and in English in 1627. In this work, Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind.

Sylva Sylvarium

A collection of materials for building the new science

OF DEATHMEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars’ books of mortification, that a man should think with himself what the pain is if he have but his finger’s end pressed or tortured, and thereby imagine what the pains of death are, when the whole body is corrupted and dissolved; when many times death passeth with less pain than the torture of a limb; for the most vital parts are not the quickest of sense.

And by him that spake only as a philosopher and natural man, it was well said, ”It is the accompaniments of death that are frightful rather than death itself”. Groans and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks, 2 and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft over and over. It is no less worthy to observe, how little alteration in good spirits the approaches of death make; for they appear to be the same men till the last instant.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good doth avert the dolers of death. Death hath this also; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. The same man that was envied while he lived, shall be loved when he is gone.

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