Bacon helped usher in the scientific revolution. If we're serious about combatting global warming, we should follow his example. Francis Bacon: the 17th-century philosopher whose scientific ideas ...

Francis Bacon was a devout Anglican remembered for his public failure and a great scientific mind. Perhaps, as he said, the "best of men are like the best of precious stones, wherein every flaw … ...

Identifying problems: Francis Bacon wrote a treatise in 1620 to encourage scientific study. (Courtesy: Science Source/Science Photo Library) The British scientist and philosopher Francis Bacon ...

Francis Bacon, social networking superstar, strikes a pose ca. 1618. ... There's the creepy painter. And then there's Francis Bacon, the English philosopher and statesman who ...

Francis Bacon – the Elizabethan philosopher, not the 20th-century painter – seems to inflame people. Hillary Clinton has spent two decades having her every sneeze scrutinized for evidence of ...

It was an unseasonably cold and snowy day back in April 1626 when the famed philosopher, statesman, and proto-scientist Sir Francis Bacon was driving through Highgate, north London, in a horse ...

Francis Bacon in 1972 as photographed by Mayotte Magnus. Mayotte Magnus, National Portrait Gallery London. But “Human Presence” is about more than what made Bacon tick; the exhibition also ...

Bacon was born in 1909 into a semi-grand Anglo-Irish family — his namesake, the Renaissance philosopher, was a distant ancestor — and spent his youth in the country houses of County Kildare.

A&E; Three bacons: Kevin, Francis and the awesome food July 8, 2020 Updated Wed., July 8, 2020 at 6:07 a.m. Kevin Bacon arrives at GQ's Men of the Year Celebration on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, in ...