The role of judgment and disagreement in science has been recognized since Aristotle and even more clearly with Francis Bacon.

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.

Bacon has been called the creator of empiricism.

Bacon has been accused of servility, of dissimulation, of various base motives, and their filthy brood of base actions, all unworthy of his high birth, and incompatible with his great wisdom, and the estimation in which he was held by the noblest spirits of the age.

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.

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.

Bacon has spoken out for the separation of church and state, and told The Times in 2005 that he did not " believe in God.

As early as 1620, the English statesman and philosopher Francis Bacon could write that typographical printing has " changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world ".

At several points throughout the commentary, Bacon alludes to his connections to Hollywood stars via other actors with whom he has worked.

The Bacon number of an actor or actress is the number of degrees of separation he or she has from Bacon, as defined by the game.

* Kevin Bacon has a Bacon number of 0.

* If the lowest Bacon number of any actor with whom X has appeared in a movie is N, X's Bacon number is N + 1.

Therefore Asner has a Bacon number of 1, and Presley ( who has never appeared in a film with Bacon ) has a Bacon number of 2.

Successful recreations have been performed by Anthemius of Tralles ( 6th century AD ), Proclus ( 6th century ) ( who by this means purportedly destroyed the fleet of Vitellus besieging Constantinople ), Ibn Sahl in his On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 10th century ), Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), Roger Bacon ( 13th century ), Giambattista della Porta and his friends ( 16th century ), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott ( 17th century ), the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris, Ioannis Sakas in the 1970s in Greece, and others.

However, as time went by, Gardner became critical of many of the Rosicrucian Order's practices ; Sullivan's followers claimed that he was immortal, having formerly been the famous historical figures Pythagoras, Cornelius Agrippa and Francis Bacon.

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.

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.

1972 ), a near-23-minute epic song laden with religious and mythological imagery, refers to the myth of Narcissus as follows: A young figure sits still by the pool / He's been stamped " Human Bacon " by some butchery tool / ( He is you ) / Social Security took care of this lad.

Literary scholars say that biographical interpretations of literature are unreliable in attributing authorship, and that catalogues of similarities between incidents in the plays and the life of an aristocrat are flawed as arguments because similar lists have been drawn up for many competing candidates, such as Francis Bacon and William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby.

Bacon studied at Oxford and may have been a disciple of Grosseteste.

Earlier observations had been made by Roger Bacon who recognized the visible spectrum in a glass of water, four centuries before Newton discovered that prisms could disassemble and reassemble white light.

When the film was followed by The Air Up There, they began to speculate on how many movies Bacon had been in and the number of people he had worked with.

In a foreword to a subsequent edition of No Bed for Bacon ( which traded on the association by declaring itself " A Story of Shakespeare and Lady Viola in Love ") Ned Sherrin, Private Eye insider and former writing partner of Brahms ', confirmed that he had lent a copy of the novel to Stoppard after he joined the writing team, but that the basic plot of the film had been independently developed by Marc Norman, who was unaware of the earlier work.

The tower has been occupied by many historical figures, including Francis Bacon and Oliver Goldsmith.

It was not until well after Custer had been promoted to the rank of brevet brigadier general that he gained the approval of Judge Bacon.

At least two major films have been set in Nome, but not filmed there: the 1995 animated / live action family film Balto starring Kevin Bacon, and the 2009 science-fiction / horror film The Fourth Kind starring Milla Jovovich.

Where Peckham met Bacon is not known, but it would have been at either Paris or Oxford.

This was the last straw ; bowing to pressure and advice from Bacon, who had long been jealous of Coke, James I suspended Coke from the Privy Council, forbade him from going on circuit and, on 14 November, dismissed him from his post as Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

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 ".

The influence of these paintings on successive generations of British artists has been noted in the works of Freud, David Bomberg, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin, and Leon Kossoff.

The precedent of appointing legally trained Lord Chancellors was not followed strongly, although others such as Nicholas Bacon did hold the office ; one Lord Chancellor is said to have been appointed because the Queen was impressed with his skill at dancing.

The following year, during the course of the uneventful first parliament session, Bacon married Alice Barnham.

At the age of forty-five, Bacon married Alice Barnham, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a well-connected London alderman and MP.

Three years later, on 21 December 1546 he married Mildred Cooke, who was ranked by Ascham with Lady Jane Grey as one of the two most learned ladies in the kingdom, and whose sister, Anne, became the wife of Sir Nicholas ( and later the mother of Sir Francis ) Bacon.

Bacon was twice married.

In 1553 Sir Nicholas Bacon married secondly Anne Cooke ( 1528 – 1610 ), one of the daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke, by whom he had two sons, Anthony ( 1558 – 1601 ) and Francis Bacon ( 1561 – 1626 ), who became Lord Chancellor and was also a philosopher, author and scientist.

Custer married Elizabeth Clift Bacon ( 1842 – 1933 ) ( whom he first saw when he was ten years old ) on February 9, 1864.

He married Elizabeth Bacon fourteen months after they formally met.

While he was not born in Monroe, Custer spent much of his boyhood living in Monroe, where he later met and married Elizabeth Bacon ( 1842 – 1933 ) during the Civil War in 1864.

His only son predeceased him, and his illegitimate daughter Anne, whom he married to Sir Nathaniel Bacon ( 1546 ?– 1622 ), local politician, half-brother of Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban.

After Bridget Paston died in 1598, Coke married Elizabeth Hatton, a desirable marriage due to her wealth ; when he found out that Bacon was also pursuing her hand, Coke acted with all speed to complete the ceremony.

Ashley Bartlett Bacon, Peter's real fiancée ( who happens to be married herself ), also arrives to stop the wedding.

His father, William Breton, a London merchant who had made a considerable fortune, died in 1559, and the widow ( née Elizabeth Bacon ) married the poet George Gascoigne before her sons had attained their majority.

Bacon was married to Victoria Panton in 2006 at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, and has two children.

They had four children: Robert Low Bacon, Gaspar Griswold Bacon, Elliot Cowdin Bacon, and Martha Beatrix Bacon who married George Whitney ( 1885-1963 ).

# Mary Pritchard Woolsey born September 1, 1855, married Alfred Terry Bacon and died in 1931.

* Lady Catherine Montagu ( c. September 1660 – 15 January 1757 ), married first Nicholas Bacon, second Rev.

He married, about 1790, Miss Bacon of Drayton in Berkshire, who died a few years after he became professor.

He married Isabel Bacon in 1923.

He was twice married, first in May 1841 to Henrietta Mary Bacon ( daughter of Charles Bacon ), who died in 1853, and second ( on 8 July 1862 ) to the widow of the Rev.