Soon after that second hospitalization, Cantor's youngest son Rudolph died suddenly ( while Cantor was delivering a lecture on his views on Baconian theory and William Shakespeare ), and this tragedy drained Cantor of much of his passion for mathematics.

Although searching Shakespeare's works for encrypted clues supposedly left by the true author is associated mainly with the Baconian theory, such arguments are commonly made by Oxfordians as well.

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The word has been used by adherents of the Baconian theory — who believe Shakespeare's plays were written in steganographic cypher by Francis Bacon.

Smith was the first person to publish the claim that Francis Bacon was the author of Shakespeare's plays, founding Baconian theory.

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His fundamental idea was that the Baconian theory of induction was following nature, meaning that there is a natural sequence along which the mind moves in the acquisition of knowledge, through particulars to the general.

James Plaisted Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance ( 12 July 1816-9 December 1899 ) was a noted British judge and rose breeder who was also a proponent of the Baconian theory that the works usually attributed to William Shakespeare were in fact authored by Francis Bacon.

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The specialization restricting the meaning of " science " to natural science follows the rise of Baconian science, which contrasted " natural science " to scholasticism, the Aristotelean method of inquiring from first principles.

The " Baconian method " does not end at the first vintage.

The work includes evidence of Browne's adherence to the Baconian method of empirical observation of nature, and was in the vanguard of work-in-progress scientific journalism in the 17th century scientific revolution, though he refers to his work as an encyclopaedia.

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.

The Baconian method is the investigative method developed by Sir Francis Bacon.

The English physician Sir Thomas Browne ( 1605 – 82 ) was one of the earliest scientists to adhere to the scientific empiricism of the Baconian method.

Proposals for a more " inquisitive " and practical approach to the study of nature are notable in Francis Bacon, whose ardent convictions did much to popularize his insightful Baconian method.

Bacon's cipher or the Baconian cipher is a method of steganography ( a method of hiding a secret message as opposed to a true cipher ) devised by Francis Bacon.

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.

Spedding's initial reaction was " speechless astonishment ;" but on later occasions he clearly expressed his disfavor of the Baconian hypothesis, and explained some of the common-sense reasons against it.

After his religious duties, Comenius's second great interest was in furthering the Baconian attempt at the organization of all human knowledge.

* James Plaisted Wilde, Baron Penzance ( 1816 – 1899 ), British judge, Shakespeare Baconian, rose-breeder and amateur gardener

Isaac Newton was a noted Baconian — his famous quote hypotheses non fingo ( I don't frame hypotheses ) was featured in later editions of the Principia, demonstrating his preference for rules that could be demonstrated by formal proof, as opposed to unevidenced hypotheses.

The Baconian method was further developed and promoted by English philosopher John Stuart Mill.

While most of his contemporaries and others since have regarded Hunter as a great anatomist, he undertook anatomy not only because it was practical and allowed for the direct observation of nature in the true Baconian tradition (" his mode of studying nature was … strictly Baconian.

" A sceptical work that debunks a number of legends circulating at the time in a paradoxical and witty manner ; it displays the Baconian side of Browne — the side that was unafraid of what at the time was still called " the new learning ".

Basil Rathbone's last episode as the famous Detective was " The Singular Affair of the Baconian Cipher.

Ashmole was an antiquary with a strong Baconian bent for the study of nature.

For the Baconian method, on the other hand, the rigidity of Ramist distinctions was a serious criticism.

Another type of corroborating evidence comes from using the Baconian method, i. e. the method of agreement, method of difference, and method of concomitant variations.

His works established and popularised inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method, or simply the scientific method.

The Protestant Reformation inspired a literal interpretation of the Bible, with concepts of creation that conflicted with the findings of an emerging science seeking explanations congruent with the mechanical philosophy of René Descartes and the empiricism of the Baconian method.

By definition, observational studies lack the manipulation required for Baconian experiments.

His encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica ( 1646 – 76 ) includes numerous examples of Baconian investigative methodology ; its preface even paraphrases lines from Bacon's essay On Truth from his 1605 work The Advancement of Learning.

Browne's writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry, while his Christian faith exuded tolerance and goodwill towards humanity in an often intolerant era.

Early advocate of data collection and its analysis as the basis of sound knowledge ( Baconian method ) in fields that include social science and the humanities.

It has been defined as " that branch of mathematics that concerns itself ultimately with the codification and transmission of insights within the mathematical community through the use of experimental ( in either the Galilean, Baconian, Aristotelian or Kantian sense ) exploration of conjectures and more informal beliefs and a careful analysis of the data acquired in this pursuit.

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His later lectures formulate such a theory of tragedy as a conflict of ethical forces, represented by characters, in ancient Greek tragedy, but in Shakespearean tragedy the conflict is rendered as one of subject and object, of individual personality which must manifest self-destructive passions because only such passions are strong enough to defend the individual from a hostile and capricious external world:

Steven Urkowitz ( a staunch opponent of the theory of bad quartos in general ) argues that the difference in the two scenes is an example of " the finely Shakespearean first choices recorded in the Quarto.

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He was also president of the Shakespearean Authorship Society, which advanced the theory that the plays generally attributed to Shakespeare were in fact the work of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

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When not identified as the sole author of the canon, Stanley is often mentioned as a leader or participant in the " group theory " of Shakespearean authorship, according to which several individuals contributed to the works.

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One theory is that the dialect is a remnant of Elizabethan ( or Shakespearean ) English that had been preserved by the region's isolation.