Spedding humorously emphasized his devotion to Bacon in the title of one of his non-Baconian works, Reviews and Discussions, Literary, Political and Historical, not relating to Bacon ( 1879 ).

The importance of Machiavelli's influence is notable in many important figures in this endeavor, for example Bodin, Francis Bacon, Algernon Sidney, Harrington, John Milton, Spinoza, Rousseau, Hume, Edward Gibbon, and Adam Smith.

A week after his appointment Haig met Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon, who emphasised the importance of obtaining control of the Belgian coast, to end the threat from there by German naval forces.

The importance of Machiavelli's realism was noted by many important figures in this endeavor, for example Bodin, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Harrington, Rousseau, Hume and Adam Smith.

After an English gentleman by the name of philosopher Roger Bacon attempts to abduct Alice from the Japanese army himself, Yuri saves her, and starts a quest through China ( and eventually Europe ) to discover Alice's importance, Bacon's intent, the identity of the mysterious voice, and his own relevance.

In many of his aphorisms, Bacon reiterates the importance of inductive reasoning.

Both Francis Bacon and Edward Coke gave readings on it, while William Holdsworth called it " perhaps the most important addition that the legislature has ever made to our private law ", with Eric Ives writing that " the importance of the Statute of Uses is beyond doubt.

The importance of these inventions to the Western world was perhaps first discussed by the British philosopher Francis Bacon ( 1561 – 1626 ), who in 1620 wrote: " Printing, gunpowder and the compass ... whence have followed innumerable changes, in so much that no empire, no sect, no star seems to have exerted greater power and influence in human affairs than these mechanical discoveries.

The English Franciscan, Roger Bacon ( c. 1214 – 1294 ) was strongly influenced by Grosseteste's writings on the importance of light.

Judging from the number of surviving manuscripts, his work was not as influential as those of Pecham and Bacon, yet his importance, and that of Pecham, grew with the invention of printing.

Francis Bacon argued the case for what would become modern science which would be based more upon real experience and experimentation, free from assumptions about metaphysics, and aimed at increasing control of nature.

John Baker has described them as " perhaps the single most influential series of named reports ", and even Francis Bacon, Coke's rival, wrote praisingly of them, saying " Had it not been for Sir Edward Coke's Reports ( which though they may have errors, and some peremptory and extrajudicial resolutions more than are warranted, yet they contain infinite good decisions and rulings over of cases ), for the law by this time had been almost like a ship without ballast ; for that the cases of modern experience are fled from those that are adjudged and ruled in former time ".

A Thousand Years was admired by Bacon, who in a letter to a friend a month before he died, wrote about the experience of seeing the work at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

The literature often mentions that Peregrinus was praised by Roger Bacon, who called him a “ perfect mathematician ” and one who valued experience over argument.

David Bacon founded and organized Tallmadge, placing a square road in the center of town where several other roads met, modeled after New England designs of the time period.

In 1897, Bacon was also approached by a group which was organized with the intent to raise public and private funds to build a monument in Washington, DC to memorialize Abraham Lincoln.

* Eier & Speck Festival (" Eggs & Bacon Festival ") is an Alternative / Punk-and Indierock-Festival, grounded in 2006 by the singer of the local Band " Ranzig ", Christoph Tappeser (" Tappi ") and is organized since 2006 every year in summer at a forest-area, called " Hoher Busch ".

Around the thirteenth century, the English monk Roger Bacon wrote a book in which he listed seven cipher methods, and stated that " a man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.

Under the influence of Bacon and Descartes, Thomas Hobbes made one of the first attempts to systematically analyze ethical and political matters in a modern way.

Sir Francis Bacon uses " blasphemy " in this way in Advancement of Learning, where he speaks of " blasphemy against teaching ".

Although Francis Bacon advocated inductive thinking based on observation or description ( empiricism ) as the way to understand and report on the natural world, the early Renaissance printed herbals were slightly modified adaptations of the works of their medieval predecessors.

Whilst the political and social conditions in Italy in the 17th century made it appear that every light of intelligence was extinguished, some strong and independent thinkers, such as Bernardino Telesio, Lucilio Vanini, Bruno and Campanella turned philosophical inquiry into fresh channels, and opened the way for the scientific conquests of Galileo Galilei, the great contemporary of René Descartes in France and of Francis Bacon in England.

Peter Bacon has written that Atzmon reminds us of " the strong link between jazz and the radical politics that are sometimes the only way to ensure its – and our – freedom.

* The song is used to humorous effect in Michael Moore's film Canadian Bacon as ill-informed Americans prepare for an invasion by Canada.

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.

Each year they honor one notable actor, actress, or filmmaker with the " Kevin Norwood Bacon Award for Achievement in Cinema ", acknowledging the success the recipient has achieved in being so closely connected to Kevin Bacon.

The subversive imaginative element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably Manet, Picasso and Francis Bacon.

He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, on 5 April 1573 at the age of twelve, living for three years there together with his older brother Anthony Bacon under the personal tutelage of Dr John Whitgift, future Archbishop of Canterbury.

Bacon took his third parliamentary seat for Middlesex when in February 1593 Elizabeth summoned Parliament to investigate a Roman Catholic plot against her.

In 1598 Bacon was arrested for debt.

As attorney general, Bacon successfully prosecuted Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset and his wife, Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset for murder in 1616.

The so-called " Prince's Parliament " of April 1614 objected to Bacon's presence in the seat for Cambridge and to the various royal plans which Bacon had supported.

Bacon, however, continued to receive the King's favour, which led to his appointment in March 1617 as the temporary Regent of England ( for a period of a month ), and in 1618 as Lord Chancellor.

Bacon wrote two sonnets proclaiming his love for Alice.

Professor Forker for example has explored the " historically documentable sexual preferences " of both King James and Bacon – and concluded they were all oriented to " masculine love ", a contemporary term that " seems to have been used exclusively to refer to the sexual preference of men for members of their own gender.

In his " New Atlantis ", Bacon describes his utopian island as being " the chastest nation under heaven ", in which there was no prostitution or adultery, and further saying that " as for masculine love, they have no touch of it ".

In his works, Bacon called for a " spring of a progeny of inventions, which shall overcome, to some extent, and subdue our needs and miseries ", always proposing that all scientific work should be done for charitable purposes, as matter of alleviating mankind's misery, and that therefore science should be practical and have as purpose the inventing of useful things for the improvement of mankind's estate.

In 1610 Bacon and his associates received a charter from the king to form the Tresurer and the Companye of Adventurers and planter of the Cittye of London and Bristoll for the Collonye or plantacon in Newfoundland and sent John Guy to found a colony there.

However, there were those who did not believe this, for instance the Fransiscan friar Roger Bacon ( c. 1214-1294 ) stated that books falsely claiming to be by ancient authors " ought to be prohibited by law ".

" In early 20th century, British artillery officer Henry William Lovett Hime proposed that another work tentatively attributed to Bacon, Epistola de Secretis Operibus Artis et Naturae, et de Nullitate Magiae contained an encrypted formula for gunpowder.

While empirical investigations of the natural world have been described since classical antiquity ( for example, by Thales, Aristotle, and others ), and scientific methods have been employed since the Middle Ages ( for example, by Ibn al-Haytham, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī and Roger Bacon ), the dawn of modern science is generally traced back to the early modern period, during what is known as the Scientific Revolution that took place in 16th and 17th century Europe.

Bacon has won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards, was nominated for an Emmy Award, and was named by The Guardian as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.

His mother, Ruth Hilda ( née Holmes ; 1916 – 1991 ), taught at an elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father, Edmund Norwood Bacon ( May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005 ), was a well-respected architect and a prominent Philadelphian who had been Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission for many years.