In 1842 he was secretary to Lord Ashburton on his American mission, and in 1855 he became secretary to the Civil Service Commission ; but from 1841 onwards he was constantly occupied in his researches into Bacon's life and philosophy.

Most of Bacon's essay is an attack on Telesio and this phrase, invariably taken out of context, has facilitated a general misconception of Telesian natural philosophy by giving to it a Baconian stamp of approval, which was far from Bacon ’ s original intentions.

Shortly afterwards Francis Bacon's De Augmentis excited his interest in inductive philosophy.

His system of education was based upon Francis Bacon's philosophy, the principle being that of proceeding from things to names, from the particular to the general, and from the mother tongue to foreign languages.

In fact, it is in the idea that natural philosophy must begin with the senses that we find the revolutionary part of Bacon's philosophy, and its consequent philosophical method, eliminative induction, is one of Bacon's most lasting contributions to science and philosophy.

In many ways, Bacon's contribution to the advancement of human knowledge lies not in the fruit of his scientific research but in the reinterpretation of the methods of natural philosophy.

Note that Bacon's optical use of the term " species " differs significantly from the genus / species categories found in Aristotelian philosophy.

Bacon's ideas were influential in the 1630s and 1650s among scholars, in particular Sir Thomas Browne, who in his encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica ( 1646 – 1672 ) frequently adheres to a Baconian approach to his scientific enquiries.

From her friendship with Samuel Morse, an authority on codes, and encryption for the telegraph, she learnt of Bacon's interest in secret ciphers, and this prompted her own approach to the authorship question.

His Ganimeds and Favourites tooke Bribes ", biographers continue to debate about Bacon's sexual inclinations and the precise nature of his personal relationships.

Merchant cites Francis Bacon's use of female metaphors to describe the exploitation of nature at this time was telling: " she is either free ,... or driven out of her ordinary course by the perverseness, insolence and forwardness of matter and violence of impediments ... or she is put in constraint, molded and made as it were new by art and the hand of man ; as in things artificial ... nature takes orders from man and works under his authority " ( Bacon in Merchant 1990: 282 ).

In his opening remarks, he proposes “ to establish progressive stages of certainty .” For Bacon, a measure of truth was its power to allow predictions of natural phenomena ( although Bacon's forms come close to what we might call " Truth ," because they are universal, immutable laws of nature ).

* Bacon's Castle, 1665, Surry County — only Jacobean great houses in the U. S., used as a stronghold in Bacon's Rebellion

According to Joseph Baretti in his Guide through the Royal Academy ( 1780 ), " the whole of the carvings in the various fronts of Somerset Place — excepting Bacon's bronze figures — were carved from finished drawings made by Cipriani.

* Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and Tommaso Campanella's Civitas Solis, The City of the Sun, are published together in a volume titled Mundus Alter et Idem — the first time, though not the last, that the two works will be bound together.

* 1675-76: Bacon's Rebellion — Third major war between Virginia settlers and Virginia and Maryland Native Americans.

Others make the point, however, that when taken in context with other rebellions in the same period — Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, the 1689 Boston revolt that deposed Andros, Culpeper's Rebellion in North Carolina in 1677, and the Protestant Rebellion against the Catholic-dominated government in Maryland in 1689 — Leisler's Rebellion follows a pattern.

Although it is generally accepted that the Secretum held a special place in Bacon's world, more dashing proposals like that of early 20th century medievalist Robert Steele — claiming that Bacon's contact with Secretum was the key event pushing Bacon towards experimentalism — have been regarded with skepticism in more recent reevaluations.

The Declaration of the People of Virginia ( or simply Declaration of the People ) was a list of complaints issued by Nathaniel Bacon on July 30, 1676, in which he proclaims Virginia's colonial governor, William Berkeley, corrupt and expresses his displeasure at what his followers regarded as unjust taxation and the government's failure to provide colonists protection from some tribes of Native Americans — the presumed grievances which brought about the uprising known as Bacon's rebellion.

David Hume made what he considered to be the first proper attempt at trying to apply Bacon's scientific method to political subjects ( Hume 1896, intro.

Bacon's personal secretary and chaplain, William Rawley, however, wrote in his biography of Bacon that his inter-marriage with Alice Barnham was one of " much conjugal love and respect ", mentioning a robe of honour that he gave to her, and which " she wore unto her dying day, being twenty years and more after his death ".

His propositions of legal reform ( which were not established in his life time ), though, are considered to have been one of the influences behind the Napoleonic Code, and therefore could show some resemblance with or influence in the drafting of other liberal constitutions that came in the centuries after Bacon's lifetime, such as the American.

She argues that Bacon's movement for the advancement of learning was closely connected with the German Rosicrucian movement, while Bacon's New Atlantis portrays a land ruled by Rosicrucians.

Andreae's island also depicts a great advancement in technology, with many industries separated in different zones which supplied the population's needs – which shows great resemblance to Bacon's scientific methods and purposes.

This claim has been disputed by historians of science including Lynn Thorndike, John Maxson Stillman and George Sarton and by Bacon's editor Robert Steele, both in terms of authenticity of the work, and with respect to the decryption method.

* Nathaniel Bacon of England ( 1585 – 1627 ), painter ( not to be confused with the leader of the same name of Bacon's Rebellion )

In the United States the plant is called " jimson weed ", or more rarely " Jamestown weed "; it got this name from the town of Jamestown, Virginia, where British soldiers were drugged with it while attempting to suppress Bacon's Rebellion.

They were gradually displaced by colonial encroachment and merged with other, larger tribes about the time of Bacon's Rebellion.

The Bacon's first home was a palmetto cabin, but later Bacon built a small, two story house with a large coquina rock fireplace on top of the Indian shell mound.

Friedman retired in 1956 and, with his wife, turned his attention to the problem that had originally brought them together: examining Bacon's supposed codes.

This essay has the subtitle Continuation of the New Atlantis, and so connects with Francis Bacon's utopia.

Spedding's major edition of Bacon's works was begun in 1847 in collaboration with Robert Leslie Ellis and Douglas Denon Heath.

Following the 1971 suicide of his lover George Dyer, Bacon's art became more personal, inward looking and preoccupied with themes and motifs of death.

During Bacon's early years, before he found fame with his first masterpiece, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion in 1945, he continually drifted throughout rental homes in England, accompanied by Lightfoot.

In an interview with Mervyn Levy he expressed his admiration for the work of René Magritte and Lucian Freud, although he admitted that he " didn't understand " Francis Bacon's work.

The era of the Penny Red came to its close at the end of 1879, along with Perkins Bacon's contract.

On March 10, 1780, Washington ’ s regiment joined forces with the remnants of the 1st Continental Light Dragoons at Bacon's Bridge, South Carolina, to reconnoiter and screen against the advancing British.

While Descartes doubts the ability of the senses to provide us with accurate information, Bacon doubts the ability of the mind to deduce truths by itself as it is subjected to so many intellectual obfuscations, Bacon's “ Idols .” In his first aphorism of New organum, Bacon states:

The Timaeus remained known in a Latin rendition by Calcidius through the Middle Ages, and the allegorical aspect of Atlantis was taken up by Humanists in utopian works of several Renaissance writers, such as Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and Thomas More's Utopia.

Attacks upon the monopolists by Parliament for the abuse of prices led to the scapegoating of Francis Bacon by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, leading to Bacon's impeachment before the Lords, the first of its kind which was not officially sanctioned by the King in the form of a bill of attainder since 1459.

His mother's sister was married to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, making Burghley Francis Bacon's uncle.

Bacon's education was conducted largely in Latin and followed the medieval curriculum.

After the execution, the Queen ordered Bacon to write the official government account of the trial, which was later published as A DECLARATION of the Practices and Treasons attempted and committed by Robert late Earle of Essex and his Complices, against her Majestie and her Kingdoms ... after Bacon's first draft was heavily edited by the Queen and her ministers.

Some authors believe that Bacon's vision for a Utopian New World in North America was laid out in his novel New Atlantis, which depicts a mythical island, Bensalem, located somewhere between Peru and Japan.

The link between Bacon's work and the Rosicrucians ideals which Yates allegedly found, was the conformity of the purposes expressed by the Rosicrucian Manifestos and Bacon's plan of a " Great Instauration ", for the two were calling for a reformation of both " divine and human understanding ", as well as both had in view the purpose of mankind's return to the " state before the Fall ".

Bacon's next project was to star opposite Elizabeth Perkins in He Said, She Said.

Many thought that architect Henry Bacon's Greek temple design was far too ostentatious for a man of Lincoln's humble character.

After his death, Bacon's practice was carried on by his son John Bacon, Jnr.

Bacon's innocence having been admitted, he was restored to favour, and replied to a writing by Sir Anthony Browne, who had again asserted the rights of the house of Suffolk to which Lady Catherine belonged.

The method was put forward in Bacon's book Novum Organum ( 1620 ), or ' New Method ', and was supposed to replace the methods put forward in Aristotle's Organon.

These four fallacies are sometimes compared to a similar list in the first part of Roger Bacon's Opus Majus which, although it was much older, had not been printed in Bacon's time.

Peckham also studied other fields, however ; and was guided by Robert Grosseteste and Roger Bacon's views on the value of experimental science.

From Bacon's point of view, the King's Bench was a far more precarious position for someone loyal to the common law rather than the monarch.

* Tabimina Balintawak – founded by Bob Silver Tabimina, one of Anciong Bacon's last major students and inheritor of Bacon's style that was modified by his stay in prison before his death.