Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . GREAT NAMES OF THE x-jTH CENTURY. 387. GREAT NAMES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. PHILOSOPHERS AND SCIENTISTS, Francis Bacon (1561-1626), the greatest of English philosophers —is called the founder of the Inductive systemof philosophy (as opposed to the Deductiveor Aristotelian system); for, though it wasapplied before his time, he was the first toput the method in philosophic form — hisgreat works, the Novtim Organum and theAdvancement of Learning;

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Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . GREAT NAMES OF THE x-jTH CENTURY. 387. GREAT NAMES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. PHILOSOPHERS AND SCIENTISTS, Francis Bacon (1561-1626), the greatest of English philosophers —is called the founder of the Inductive systemof philosophy (as opposed to the Deductiveor Aristotelian system); for, though it wasapplied before his time, he was the first toput the method in philosophic form — hisgreat works, the Novtim Organum and theAdvancement of Learning; but the book bywhich he is best known is his Essays. Descartes (1596-1650), a great Frenchphilosopher — was brought up for the army,but abandoned the profession and retired ^°^^ Bacon. to Holland to study philosophy — was tutor of Queen Christina ofSweden — had a great influence on the method of philosophizing inthe 17th century. Hobbes (1588- 1679), a famous English philosopher — was early asso-ciated with Galileo and Descartes — he partly educated PrinceCharles—was a freethinker, but not a deist or atheist—^ chiefworks, the Leviathan and the Behemoth. Kepler (

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