Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
Born	22 January 1561 Strand, London, England
Died	9 April 1626 Highgate, Middlesex, England
Cause of death	Pneumonia
Nationality	English
Alma mater	Cambridge University
Era	English Renaissance, The Scientific Revolution
Region	Western philosophy
School	Renaissance Philosophy, Empiricism
Influences Presocratics (Democritus, Empedocles, Parmenides), Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Niccolò Machiavelli, Michel de Montaigne, Vanoccio Biringuccio, Bernard Palissy, Bernardino Telesio, William Gilbert, Roger Bacon
Influenced Thomas Hobbes, Isaac Newton, John Locke, Encyclopédistes, Basil Montagu, Thomas Jefferson
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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban KC, (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), was an English philosopher, statesman, and author. He has been described as one of the greatest thinkers ever whose ideas have changed the way people think.