This is much more than the haphazard investigations that characterised “natural philosophy” in Bacon’s time: this is recognisable science. Quite early on in his career, Francis Bacon ...

One way to approach it is to look back to a time when scientific thinking did manage to initiate revolutionary changes in our outlook. In the 17th century, the philosopher Francis Bacon called for a ...

In the 17th century, the philosopher Francis Bacon called for a “great fresh start” in our thinking about the natural world, and helped usher in the scientific revolution that replaced the ...

Identifying problems: Francis Bacon wrote a treatise in 1620 to encourage scientific study. (Courtesy: Science Source/Science Photo Library) The British scientist and philosopher Francis Bacon ...

Francis Bacon was a devout Anglican remembered for ... Bacon divided knowledge into philosophy, or natural knowledge, and divinity, or inspired revelation. Though he insisted that philosophy ...

Opinion: 17th century philosopher Francis Bacon is playing a role in the urgent contest over the heart and soul of climate action One of the other issues that the Citizens’ Assembly discussed ...

There's the food. There's the creepy painter. And then there's Francis Bacon, the English philosopher and statesman who boldly proclaimed, "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." ...

Was Bacon a hero or villain of science? (Courtesy: Sheila Terry/Science Photo Library) Francis Bacon – the Elizabethan philosopher, not the 20th-century painter – seems to inflame people. Hillary ...

In his 1981 book, Francis Bacon: Logique de la sensation, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze attempted to get under Bacon’s skin, writing that the artist “…pursues a very peculiar project as ...