Francis Bacon was born on 22 January 1561 at York House near Strand in London, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon (
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Francis Bacon's philosophy is displayed in the vast and varied writings he left, which might be divided into three great branches:
• Scientific works in which his ideas for a universal reform of knowledge into scientific methodology and … See more

Bacon's seminal work Novum Organum was influential in the 1630s and 1650s among scholars, in particular Sir Thomas Browne, who in his encyclopedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646–72) frequently adheres to a Baconia… See more

The Baconian hypothesis of Shakespearean authorship, first proposed in the mid-19th century, contends that Francis Bacon wrote some or even all of the plays conventionally attributed to William Shakespeare.
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