Again this was an individual from history whose name I knew, but did not know why I should remember him. From the Librivox blurb about The Essays of Francis Bacon: “Diderot and Voltaire considered him the father of modern science. Others consider him only the father of the scientific method.” Mr. Church went back and forth on this at one pointing stating that he was mainly the individual who had a platform and broadcasted the fundamentals of experimental science to a larger audience. Either way it was an important contribution.
Bacon was a collector of “facts” and searcher after a key to unlock the meaning of the collected facts. He was a proponent of deductive reasoning over inductive reason to understand our world. Deductive reasoning with the scientific method1 was the key he sought.
Generally, when they call someone complex or complicated it is an indication that the good and bad side of humanity comes out frequently in an individual. Francis Bacon was a complicated individual. His real passion Continue reading “Bacon by Richard William Church”