FRANCIS BACON

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS

• Invented the scientific method
• Attended Trinity college in Cambridge April 1573 at age 11
• President of the court of the verge
• 1612-1613 Henry VIII last Shakespeare play

FAST FACTS

• Birthday was January 22, 1561
• Born in York house, Charing cross, London
• Died May 1601
• He believed in humanism threw science,
• Instead of religion

BELIEFS/FEELINGS

• Believed humanism was a good thing
• Valid knowledge must be rooted in natural world
• Believed that knowledge is power

QUOTE#1

• "I will never be an old man to me, "
• old age is always 15years older than I am"

QUOTE #2

• "Silence is the sleep that
• nourishes wisdom"

QUOTE #3

• "A wise man will make
• more opportunities than
• he finds"

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