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This work, not having a strictly scientific nature as other better-known works, has been reputed among Bacon's literary works. However, two of the chapters, "Cupid; or the Atom", and "Proteus; or Matter" may be considered part of Bacon's scientific philosophy. Bacon describes in "Cupid" his vision of the nature of the atom and of matter itself.
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.
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Title page of Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon. Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, 1509 (printed 1511) Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513 (printed 1532) Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy, 1517 (printed 1533) Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1570–1592 (printed 1580–1595) Sir Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620
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.
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 ...
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Three Figures in a Room is a 1964 oil-on-canvas triptych painting by British artist Francis Bacon. Each panel measures 198 × 147 centimetres (78 × 58 in) and shows a separate view of his lover George Dyer, whom Bacon first met in 1963. It is the first of Bacon's works to feature Dyer, a model to whom he returned repeatedly in his paintings.