1561–1626 English statesman and philosopherof science whose empiricist methodological prescriptions influenced the early Royal Society.
Keywords: experiment; induction; method
Bacon, Francis
J Sutton, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002352
| Further Reading | |
| book Bacon F (1857–74) The Works of Francis Bacon, Spedding J, Ellis RL, Heath DD (eds), 14 vols. London: Longmans. | |
| book Bacon F (1996–2000) The Oxford Francis Bacon, 12 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press. | |
| book Jardine L and Stewart A (1999) Hostage to Fortune: the Troubled Life of Francis Bacon. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. | |
| book Pentonen M (ed.) (1996) The Cambridge Companion to Bacon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | |
| book Perez-Ramos A (1988) Francis Bacon's Idea of Science and the Maker's Knowledge Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press. | |
| book Quinton A (1980) Francis Bacon. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| book Rossi P (1968) Francis Bacon: From Magic to Science. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. | |
| book Wallace KR (1967) Francis Bacon on the Nature of Man. Urbana, IL: Illinois University Press. | |
| book Webster C (1975) The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine, and Reform 1626–1660. London: Duckworth. | |
| book Zagorin P (1998) Francis Bacon. Princeton: Princeton University Press. | |
