Early modern · 1561–1626
Who did Francis Bacon influence?
Students and legacy
Knowledge is power: replaced authority with observation and invented the research program.
Francis Bacon influenced Thomas Hobbes. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Francis Bacon?
Francis Bacon was an English philosopher and statesman who rose to Attorney General and Lord Chancellor under James I, until he was convicted of corruption, briefly imprisoned and barred from office. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and became Baron Verulam and Viscount St Alban.
Often called the father of empiricism, he argued that scientific knowledge can rest on induction and careful observation of nature, pursued with a sceptical method that guards against self-deception. His specific Baconian method did not last, but the idea behind it makes him one of the founders of the scientific method, and his works stayed influential throughout the Scientific Revolution.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who did Francis Bacon influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Francis Bacon.
- Thomas Hobbes 1588–1679
Two steps away from Francis Bacon
The second generation
Contemporaries of Francis Bacon
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Francis Bacon, with no direct line between them.
- Giordano Bruno 1548–1600
- Hugo Grotius 1583–1645
Francis Bacon by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 0
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 0
- Thinkers downstream
- 116
- Wikipedia languages
- 118 — #11 of 36 among early modern philosophers
- Card rarity
- Legendary
Questions about Francis Bacon
- Who influenced Francis Bacon?
- No earlier thinker on this map is recorded as a direct influence on Francis Bacon.
- Who did Francis Bacon influence?
- Thomas Hobbes.
- When did Francis Bacon live?
- 1561–1626. The map files Francis Bacon under the early modern period.
- How rare is the Francis Bacon card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Francis Bacon in 118 languages, which makes it a Legendary card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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