| Front | Francis Bacon |
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| Back | 1561-1626 philosopher and essayist his first writing had been political he died because of chillness of snow Bacon's greatest achievement is the programme of intellectual and scientific reform proposed under the title of instaratio magna (the great instrauration). begun in the advancement of learning and continued in novum organnu and sylva Sylvanum. these works rejects the older, Aristotelian structures of knowledge and seek to discover a system of philosophic instruction based upon a charter, empirical perception of nature |
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