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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, [a] 1st Baron Verulam, PC (/ ˈ b eɪ k ən /; [5] 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I.
Portrait of Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban, by John Vanderbank, circa 1731, after a portrait by an unknown artist (circa 1618). This is a complete chronological bibliography of Francis Bacon . Many of Bacon's writings were only published after his death in 1626.
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author, and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through ...
Francis Bacon (1561–1626). Empiricist. Galileo Galilei (1564–1642). Heliocentrist. Johannes Kepler (1571–1630). Scientist, whose works affected Philosophy of Science. Molla-Sadra (1572–1640). Major Islamic philosopher. Hugo Grotius (1583–1645). Natural law theorist. Marin Mersenne (1588–1648). Cartesian. Robert Filmer (1588–1653).
In the year 1621, Bacon suffered a public and political fall from grace resulting in political exile during the reign of King James I and was confined within the Tower of London for a few days. [7] Much of Bacon's work focused on British empiricism, scientific enquiry, philosophy, and history. [8]
Francis Bacon: Human Presence contains enough variety of works in its climactic sections to account for the stronger and weaker aspects of the later Bacon, while veering thankfully towards the former.
Essayes: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed (1597) was the first published book by the philosopher, statesman and jurist Francis Bacon. The Essays are written in a wide range of styles, from the plain and unadorned to the epigrammatic. They cover topics drawn from both public and private life, and in ...
Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych, 1985–86 is a triptych painted between 1985 and 1986 by the Irish-born English artist Francis Bacon. It is a brutally honest examination of the effect of age and time on the human body and spirit and was painted in the aftermath of the deaths of many of his close friends.