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francis_bacon [2024/04/17 06:28] eziothekilla34 |
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He died on April 9, 1626, in Highgate, London.[([[https://www.londonremembers.com/subjects/sir-francis-bacon|londonremembers]])] | He died on April 9, 1626, in Highgate, London.[([[https://www.londonremembers.com/subjects/sir-francis-bacon|londonremembers]])] |
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| ===== Pneumonia ===== |
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| Bacon's death is believed to have been caused by pneumonia, which he contracted after stuffing a chicken with snow to see if it would preserve the meat.[([[https://homework.study.com/explanation/when-did-francis-bacon-die.html|study]])] |
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| ===== William Shakespeare ===== |
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| He was a contemporary of William Shakespeare, and there is speculation about whether they may have collaborated or influenced each other's work.[([[https://www.quora.com/Is-Francis-Bacon-William-Shakespeare|quora]])] |
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| ===== Essays ===== |
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| Bacon's essays, first published in 1597, cover a wide range of topics, including friendship, love, marriage, and morality.[([[https://pressbooks.pub/earlybritishlit/chapter/francis-bacon-essays/|pressbooks]])] |
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| ===== Alchemy ===== |
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| Bacon was interested in alchemy and believed in the possibility of transmuting base metals into gold.[([[https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780271078038-006/html|degruyter]])] |
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In his work //De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum// (1623), he reviewed and personally classified all the sciences. Bacon divided them into history/memory (the description of facts that have previously occurred), poetry/imagination and philosophy/reason (any kind of cognition). [([[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22702164/|National Library of Medicine]])] | In his work //De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum// (1623), he reviewed and personally classified all the sciences. Bacon divided them into history/memory (the description of facts that have previously occurred), poetry/imagination and philosophy/reason (any kind of cognition). [([[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22702164/|National Library of Medicine]])] |
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