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Francis Bacon

22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626
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An English philosopher, lawyer and statesman who rose to be Lord Chancellor under James I before his fall in 1621 on charges of bribery. In The Advancement of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620) he called for a new method of knowledge built on observation and experiment, and his Essays (1597–1625) were the first in English to bear the name.

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1605
Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane

Advancement of Learning, The, by Francis Bacon (1605), the original title being ‘Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human.’ This book, received with great favor by the court and by scholars, was…

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1620
Novum Organum

Bacon's “new instrument” for the study of nature, published in Latin in 1620 as the second part of his unfinished Great Instauration.

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1625
The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall

Essayes: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed (1597) was the first published book by the philosopher, statesman and jurist Francis Bacon.

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