Person1561 – 1626
Francis Bacon
Also called: Bacon, Viscount St Alban
English philosopher and statesman whose Novum Organum championed induction from observation and experiment, founding empiricism
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Bacon’s Novum Organum (1620) championed induction, finding laws through observation and experiment, while Descartes’ Discourse on Method (1637) set out deduction from certain first principles, opening the two main streams of modern philosophy.
People who appear alongside
- René Descartes1596 – 1650
French philosopher and mathematician who, starting from “I think, therefore I am”, built the deductive method of rationalism
Themes this person appears in
- Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment and the English Revolutions1543 – 1796
The Scientific Revolution from Copernicus to Newton, parliamentary government in England won through the Puritan and Glorious Revolutions, and the Enlightenment that sought to remake society by reason — the groundwork of the civic revolutions and the Industrial Revolution