WHEN, some years ago, I set out to write about Sir Francis Bacon, the undertaking loomed frighteningly large. Not only had Bacon been written about copiously for more than three hundred years, but I ...
BYRON STEEL’S biography of Sir Francis Bacon is subtitled “The First Modern Mind.” However, the biographer is less concerned with the progress of Bacon’s philosophy than he is with the unfortunate man ...
The Baconian method is the investigative method developed by Sir Francis Bacon, one of the founders of modern science, and thus a first formulation of a modern scientific method. The method was put ...