1576-1626 British Robert Peake Gallery   Related Paintings of Robert Peake the Elder :. | Portrait of Francis Poulett | Henry,Prince of Wales (mk25) | Portrait of a Lady of the Hampden family | Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia | Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales and Sir John Harington |
Related Artists:
School of Latium
First half of the thirteenth century
Christopher Hieronymus Johansen
(1718 -1781 ) - Painter
Francis Bacon
English , 1561-1626 British statesman and philosopher, father of modern scientific method. He studied at Cambridge and at Gray's Inn. A supporter of the Earl of Essex, Bacon turned against him when Essex was tried for treason. Under James I he rose steadily, becoming successively solicitor general (1607), attorney general (1613), and lord chancellor (1618). Convicted of accepting bribes from those being tried in his court, he was briefly imprisoned and permanently lost his public offices; he died deeply in debt. He attempted to put natural science on a firm empirical foundation in the Novum Organum (1620), which sets forth his scientific method. His elaborate classification of the sciences inspired the 18th-century French Encyclopedists, and his empiricism inspired 19th-century British philosophers of science. His other works include The Advancement of Learning (1605),