(Getty) Few philosophers divide the opinion of commentators as neatly as Francis Bacon (1561–1626). Some have found early manifestations of the very precepts of the Enlightenment in his many ...

He caught pneumonia trying to stuff a chicken with snow. It was 9 April 1626. It had been snowing in London. Francis Bacon and the king’s physician were traveling through Highgate. Bacon ...

(Courtesy: Science Source/Science Photo Library) The British scientist and philosopher Francis Bacon (1561–1626) was an avid promoter of science at a time when neither its practice nor its social ...

Francis Bacon was a devout Anglican remembered for ... but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." In 1626 he stopped in the snow to conduct an experiment on the preservation ...

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was the author of this aphorism, [18] which dates back to a period before the beginnings of scientific medicine. Bacon may have been thinking about bloodletting ...