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Early Life

Francis Bacon, born in 1561, was a significant figure known for his contributions to empiricist natural philosophy and the concept of a modern research institute. He faced challenges in his early life, including the death of his father and struggles to find stable employment, which led him to pursue a career in law and politics. Despite setbacks, including conflicts with Queen Elizabeth, Bacon's philosophical ambitions remained influential in the establishment of the Royal Society.

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Early Life

Francis Bacon, born in 1561, was a significant figure known for his contributions to empiricist natural philosophy and the concept of a modern research institute. He faced challenges in his early life, including the death of his father and struggles to find stable employment, which led him to pursue a career in law and politics. Despite setbacks, including conflicts with Queen Elizabeth, Bacon's philosophical ambitions remained influential in the establishment of the Royal Society.

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College) took up his idea of a cooperative research institution in their plans and preparations

for establishing the Royal Society.

To the present day Bacon is well known for his treatises on empiricist natural philosophy

(The Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum Scientiarum) and for his doctrine of the

idols, which he put forward in his early writings, as well as for the idea of a modern research

institute, which he described in Nova Atlantis.

Early Life And Education

Francis Bacon was born in 1561 in the family of Nicolas Bacon and Anne Cooke Bacon.

His father was a popular politician and a Lord Keeper of the Seal. His mother, Anne Bacon,

was his father’s second wife. Bacon’s mother was a sister-in-law to Lord Burghley. Bacon

was homeschooled in his younger years. The younger of Nicholas Bacon and Anne Cook’s

two sons, Francis Bacon entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1573, when he was 11 years

of age. He finished his course of study at the school in 1575. In 1576, he went to Gray’s Inn

to study law. However, he found the curriculum at the school to be too old-fashioned.

One year after joining with Gray’s Inn, Bacon dropped out of school to work at the learning

institution. He also traveled to France as a part of the British ambassador’s suite. Two years

later, he was forced to return to England when his father died. Bacon was 18 years old when

his father passed away in 1576, leaving him broke. He turned to his uncle for help in finding

a well-paying job as a governor, but his uncle let him down.

Still a teen, Bacon was struggling to find a means of earning a living. After working for a

while, he returned to Gray’s Inn to finish his education. By 1582, he was given the position of

an outer barrister. While his political career was successful, Bacon had other philosophical

and political ambitions. He joined politics but he suffered a major setback because of his

objections to raise the military budget, a stand that displeased Queen Elizabeth.

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