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Sir Francis Bacon

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Noun1.Sir Francis Bacon - English statesman and philosopherSir Francis Bacon - English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)


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For their research, the experts studied correspondence that dated as far back as 1574 for philosopher Sir Francis Bacon and as recently, in the case of writer Carl Sandburg, as 1966.
As Sir Francis Bacon said, "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
In the 1620s, Sir Francis Bacon sketched out in his The New Atlantis an optimistic vision for Solomon's House.
 
 
 
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