Tiffany--Francis+Bacon

=**Francis Bacon**=

=__**Lived:**__= Born London, England, January 22, 1561. Died London, April 9, 1626.

=__**Background**:__= Being a politician in Tudor England was a risky occupation and many lost their heads over it. However, it was Bacons role as a scientist that lead to his death. A highly original thinker, Bacon had the idea during a snowstorm that snow might be used to preserve meat. He bought a gutted chicken from a woman in High Gate Hill, with the intention of testing out his theory on returning home. He became cold and feverish in the snow before being able to get home and took refuge at the Earl of Arundel's house in High gate. He remained in bed there for 2 or 3 days and died-either of pnemonia or of an infection from the raw chicken meat.

=** __Childhood:__ **= Bacon was born on 22 January 1561, at York House near the strand in London.media type="youtube" key="00wrO_CnldM" height="323" width="550" align="right" Biographers believed Bacon was educated at home in his early years owing to poor health (which plagued him throughout life.) In three years he visited Blois, Poitiers, Tours, Italy, and Spain. During his travels Bacon studied language, statecraft and civil laws white performing routine diplomatic tasks.

=__**Career/Jobs:**__= He was soon engaged in further efforts to defend the royal prerogative against encroachment. Salisbury died, and Bacon hastened to offer himself in his place. These services were not disregarded. He become a privy councilor in 1616, and in march 1617, to his intense gratification he was appointed lord keeper.

=__**Education:**__= The most popular of all Bacon's writings was the Essays or councils, civil and Moral. The earlier set are written in a disjointed, aphoristic style; the later numbers are more continuous and richer in manner and allusion. These essays are full of practical wisdom, and disclose the author's penetrating, dry, and detached view of mankind.

=__**Achievements:**__= Bacon had been called the father of empiricism. His works established and popularieed inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry. Often called the Baconian method or simply, the scientific method.

=__**Influence on the World:**__= When these incomplete proposals are compared with the procedure of the great scientists of the time, such as Galileo or William Harvey, their defects become apparent.