Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, spy, freemason and essayist. He was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and created Viscount St Albans in 1621; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death.

Posthumous reputation

Bacon's ideas about the improvement of the human lot were influential in the 1640s and 1650s among a number of Parliamentarian scholars. In the Restoration Bacon was commonly invoked as a guiding spirit of the new-founded Royal Society. In the nineteenth century his emphasis on induction was revived and developed by William Whewell, among others.

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Parliamentarian - Restoration - Royal Society - Induction - William Whewell

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Bacon and Shakespeare

Since the nineteenth century a number of writers have extended Bacon's acknowledged body of work by claiming that Bacon was the author of the plays usually attributed to William Shakespeare. There is evidence for this via Bacon's Shakespeare notebook, The Promus, and The Northumberland Manuscript. Shakespearean authorship.)

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William Shakespeare - Shakespearean authorship

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