Bacon, Francis

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• BACON, Francis — (1561 1626) Francis Bacon was a lawyer, man of letters, and philosopher in the Elizabe­than and Jacobean eras. Although he eventually became lord chancellor of En­gland, he is best known for his Essays and writings concerning the new philosophy,… …   Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary

• Bacon, Francis — (1909 92)    by John Marks   Deleuze s aim in Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, as with all his other works on art, is to produce philosophical concepts that correspond to the sensible aggregates that the artist has produced. The logic of… …   The Deleuze dictionary

• Bacon, Francis — (1909 92)    by John Marks   Deleuze s aim in Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, as with all his other works on art, is to produce philosophical concepts that correspond to the sensible aggregates that the artist has produced. The logic of… …   The Deleuze dictionary

• Bacon, Francis —    b. 1909, Dublin; d. 1992, London    Painter    Francis Bacon was the most prominent English painter of the twentieth century until his death in 1992. Major retrospectives were assembled by the Tate Gallery in 1962 and 1985 (see Tate(s)). A… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture

• Bacon, Francis — (1561–1626)    Politician and Philosopher.    Bacon was the son of Queen Elizabeth I’s Lord Keeper. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and was first elected a Member of Parliament in 1584. He became Solicitor General in 1608, Attorney …   Who’s Who in Christianity

• Bacon, Francis — born Oct. 28, 1909, Dublin, Ire. died April 28, 1992, Madrid, Spain Irish British painter. He lived in Berlin and Paris before settling in London (1929) to begin a career as an interior decorator. With no formal art training, he started painting …   Universalium

• Bacon, Francis — (1561 1626)    English philosopher, essayist, and royal official, knighted by King James VI and eventually raised to the peerage. The son of a high ranking official of Queen Elizabeth I, under James VI he rose to be lord chancellor, the highest… …   Historical Dictionary of Renaissance

• Bacon, Francis — (1561–1626) English statesman. As a philosopher of science the first notable example of the empiricist tendency of English thought, but perhaps more importantly the prophet and protector of the dawning scientific revolution. He was a precocious… …   Philosophy dictionary

• Bacon,Francis — I. Ba·con1 (bāʹkən), Francis. First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561 1626. English philosopher, essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include The Advancement of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which …   Universalium

• Bacon (Francis) and man’s two-faced kingdom — Francis Bacon and man’s two faced kingdom Antonio Pérez Ramos Two closely related but distinct tenets about Bacon’s philosophy have been all but rejected by contemporary historiography. The first is Bacon’s attachment to the so called British… …   History of philosophy