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Biography


 * Francis Baco﻿n, father of empiricism, was born January 22, 1561. He was known as an English philosopher, statesman, lawyer, champion of modern science, jurist, and an author. He was secretly the son of Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley. His career ended in shame, but he was still powerful with his works. They were recognized as methodologies for scientific inquiry, having the nickname of the Baconian method.
 * While Bacon was educated at home for his illness, John Walsall, a graduate of Oxford, was his teacher. Bacon then went to Trinity College Cambridge at the age of 12 and then went to University for Politiers. His studies at those schools made him to soon believe that the methods and results of science he was getting were wrong. Aristotle conflicted with his hatred of Aristotelian philosophy, which seemed wrong in its objectives.
 * He died April 9, 1626 of pneumonia while he was studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat; he was in the rare group of scientists that died from their own experiments.
 * Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Bacon, Locke, and Newton. I consider them as the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception, an as having laid the foundation of those superstructures which have been raised in the Physical and Moral science."