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Philosophy: Francis Bacon by Sonia-Doris Andras As Beethoven is considered to have opened the doors to Romanticism in music, Francis Bacon has been given credit for building the foundations for the modern scientific method, namely Empiricism. He centred his philosophy around the idea that real kn... More> Biography: Sir Francis Bacon by M Dee Dubroff Francis Bacon was born at York House Strand, London on January 22, 1561. He was the youngest of five sons of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of The Great Seal under Elizabeth I and Ann Cooke Bacon. As a child, he was of frail health, and for this re... More>
	Artwork: Figure in a Landscape, by Francis Bacon by John Welford Francis Bacon (1909-92) was an artist whose work was not easy to like or to understand. He belonged to the Expressionist tradition, for which the purpose of art is not to depict the outside world but interior emotions, particularly those of fear, vi... More> Comparing the writings of Sir Francis Bacon and Steven J. Gould by Sara Popplewell Sir Francis Bacon's, The Four Idols, and Steven Jay Gould's, Nonmoral Nature, are quite compatible as comparisons. I would say more so than comparing Gould's work with Charles Darwin's Natural Selection, from a literary standpoint. I think Bacon and... More>
Philosophical arguments on whether mankind should go to Mars by Ray Burke Mars: spiders, ants, and bees Francis Bacon, the 17th century natural philosopher, once said “Knowledge is power” and that knowledge has been used to great effect in powering the civilisation we have today. However, the knowledge to powe... More> Strange ways famous people died by Lynette Alice The strangest, and to a large degree dumbest deaths of famous people in history are really somewhat bizarre. What makes them so odd, is that in many cases these were intelligent people - even Attila the Hun was a pretty bright guy from a military st... More>
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