LITOPAEDIA

Bacon has the credit of transplanting the essay into England, but he followed a different line from Montaigne. Apart from being a pioneer in essay writing, he was also a pioneer in Modern Philosophy. Though Francis Bacon belonged to the Anglican faith, his works were far related to Theology. 1.  The Novum Oraganum  - The New Method : This philosophical work was published in 1620. The title of this work is a reference to Aristotle's Oraganon . This work is divided into two parts:       1) On the Interpretation of Nature and The Empire of Man  2) On the Interpretation of Nature    / Reign of Man .  The theme of  Novum Oraganum include the search of truth, the necessity of exploring the natural world and the rejection of faulty mental reasoning.    2. Of Proficience and Advancement of Learning Divine and Human : This philosophical work was published in 1605 and is written in a form of letters to King ...

Sir Francis Bacon was an   Elizabethan essayist, philosopher and statesman.  He is regarded as the father of English Essay. Bacon was the son of Nicholas Bacon who was the lord keeper of the seal for Queen Elizabeth - I . Bacon entered the Trinity College at the age of 12, where he described his tutors as “Men of sharp wits, shut up in their cells of a few authors chiefly Aristotle,their dictator” , this very statement marked the beginning of Bacon’s rejection of Aristotelianism, Scholasticism and the New Renaissance Humanism. He earned his reputation as a debater by entering the British parliament as a member in the house of commons in 1593 . Bacon first published a small volume of essays in 1597 .He has also been called as the creator of Empiricism . Bacon’s work established and popularized Inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry which was often called as the Baconian method .After Queen Elizabeth's demise and James I accession to the throne in 1603, Bacon w...