Francis Bacon
22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626
English philosopher, statesman, and Lord Chancellor, considered the father of empiricism for championing observation and experiment as the basis of scientific knowledge.
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Entered Trinity College, Cambridge
April 1573
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Published Novum Organum
1620
The work set out his inductive method for investigating nature.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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