Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans, English philosopher, statesman and essayist, (c1850). Artist: Unknown

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Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans, English philosopher, statesman and essayist, (c1850). Bacon (1561-1626) became Lord Chancellor in 1618. In science he advocated observation and experiment as a method of enquiry rather than Aristotelian deductive logic. Taken from the book Old England's Worthies, London, c1850.

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