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Francis Bacon

22 January 1561 - 9 April 1626

An English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author known as the father of Empiricism.

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  • Cover of: The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Seventh Edition: Volume 1B: The SixteenthCentury/The Early Seventeenth Century

    First published in 1999 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Peigen lun ren sheng: cha tu ben

    First published in 2001 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Bacon's Essays

    First published in 1867 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The great instauration: Proemium, preface, plan of the work, and Novum organum by Francis Bacon. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes. An essay concerning human understanding by John Locke

    First published in 1937 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Bacon / Giacometti

    First published in 2018 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The essays of Francis Bacon

    First published in 1936 2 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition essaysoffrancisb0000baco_k0d7
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  • Cover of: Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban and Lord High Chancellor of England

    First published in 2020 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Essais du chevalier Bacon, chancelier d'Angleterre: sur divers sujets de politique & de morale

    First published in 1734 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Francis Bacon's essays

    First published in 1906 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The charge of Sir Francis Bacon touching duells.

    First published in 1968 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Collection of Apophthegms New and Old

    First published in 1674 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Collotype facsimile & type transcript of an Elizabethan manuscript preserved at Alnwick castle, Northumberland

    First published in 1904 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The elements of the common lawes of England branched into a double tract: the one contayning a collection of some principall rules and maximes of the common law, with their latitude and extent explicated for the more facile introduction osuch as are studiously addicted to that noble profession ; the other the use of the common law, for preseruation of our persons, goods and good names, according to the lawes and customes of this land

    First published in 1980 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: L' artisan de la fortune: ensemble les antitheses des choses, les sophismes, & les characteres de l'esprit

    First published in 1640 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The learned reading of Sir Francis Bacon, one of Her Majesties learned counsell at law, upon the Statute of uses: being his double reading to the honourable society of Grayes Inne ...

    First published in 1642 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Lord Bacon's essays; or, Counsels moral and civil

    First published in 1720 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Of custom and education

    First published in 1911 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Of travel

    First published in 1912 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately

    First published in 2013 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: History of the Reigns of Henry the Seventh, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth and Queen Mary

    First published in 2022 2 editions in 1 language
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Subjects
Science, Methodology, Early works to 1800, Logic, Philosophy, History, English essays, Utopias, Natural history, Law, Pre-Linnean works, Induction (Logic), Conduct of life, Winds, Aphorisms and apothegms, English Philosophy, Philosophy of nature, Church of England, Correspondence, Legal maxims, Learning, Science, methodology, Philosophers, Uses (Law), Bacon, francis, 1909-1992
Places
Great Britain, England, Scotland, Spain, London, Philosophy, America, Bridewell, Europe, Grande-Bretagne, History, Legal maxims, Zhong shi ji, ying guo
People
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Robert Devereux Essex Earl of (1566-1601), Elizabeth I Queen of England (1533-1603), Henry VII King of England (1457-1509), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Edward Squire (d. 1598), F. Pei gen (1561-1626 -- zhe xue), Frances Howard Carr Somerset Countess of (1593-1632), Francis Bacon (1909), Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Ganson Goodyear Depew (1895-1924), George Villiers Buckingham Duke of (1592-1628), George Villiers Buckingham Duke of (1628-1687), Henry Morley (1822-1894), Henry VIII King of England (1491-1547), James T. Boulton (1924-), Joseph Rawson Lumby (1831-1895), Pei gen (Bacon. Francis), Richard Walpole (1564-1607), Robert Devereux Essex Earl of (1565-1601), Robert Devereux Essex Earl of (1591-1646), Thomas Markby, Thomas Overbury Sir (1581-1613), Walter Raleigh Sir (1552?-1618), William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
Time
Early modern, 1500-1700, 17th century, Henry VII, 1485-1509, James I, 1603-1625, Early works to 1800, Elizabeth, 1558-1603, 16th century, Charles I, 1625-1649, 1603-1625, The Union, 1707, Tudors, 1485-1603, 1492-1648, 1558-1603, 1625-1649, 1689-1745, 1691, 16e siècle, 17e siècle, 18th century, Yingguo, zhong shi ji

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  • Francis Bacon
  • Bacon, Francis Viscount St. Albans
  • Francis Bacon Viscount St. Albans
  • Sir Francis Bacon
  • Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, etc
  • 1626
  • Bacon, Francis viscount St. Albans
  • Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne
  • Francis Bacon, John Milton, Sir Thomas Browne

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February 27, 2024 Edited by Drini merge authors
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April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import