Francis Bacon
Philosoph, Jurist und Staatsmann, 1561-1626
"Im Alter von 13 Jahren kam Bacon aufs Trinity College in Cambridge, wo er Medizin und Jura studierte. Dort brachte ihn das Studium verschiedener damaliger Disziplinen zu dem Schluss, dass in den Wissenschaften sowohl die angewandten Methoden als auch die erlangten Ergebnisse fehlerbehaftet seien. Als seine beiden Hauptwerke betrachtete er ""De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum"", das ein erster Versuch zu einer Universalenzyklopädie genannt werden kann, und „Novum organon scientiarum“, das die Prinzipien einer Methodenlehre der Wissenschaften beschreibt. Bacon gilt als Wegbereiter des Empirismus, der durch sensualistische Erfahrung die Erneuerung der Wissenschaft vorantreiben wollte."
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Letter signed and subscribed ("assured/ fr. verulam Canc[ellarius]").
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Letter signed and subscribed ("assured/ fr. verulam Canc[ellarius]"), as Baron Verulam and Lord Chancellor, to Lord Zouch, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, notifying him of a forthcoming legal case affecting his prerogative: "There are protest gone out at Mr Attorney Generalls prayer against Hugh Hugginson and Josias Ente concerning the busines against the Dutchmen in Starchamber. Out of a desire to extened the ancient priviledges and customes due to your place not to serve such protest within your jurisdiction without your leave and contente, I have thought it good hereby to desire your Lordship for his Majesties service, that you would cause them forthwith to be sent papers to answer Mr Attorneys Bill and abide such further proceedings as their case shall require". - Written in a secretarial hand, with the place, date and closing in an italic hand, as is Bacon's signature and subscription; contemporary endorsement. - From the Spiro Family Collection (Christie's, London, 3 December 2003, lot 59).
Autograph letter signed.
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Rare autograph letter to Philip Mordue: „Thank you very much for your letter it does not matter of coming here if you can’t get John [this is John Edwards] - I do hope John gets the pub as he thinks he can make a great success of it there are also very nice rooms upstairs in to living part - I am sure giving up smoking is a good think if you can keep it up. I hope I will see you when you come out on leve in May - in the meantime all very best wishes […]“ John Edwards was Francis Bacon’s closest companion from the mid-1970s. Edwards and Bacon met in 1974 at the Colony Room in Soho and they were near-constant companions for much of the next 20 years. Bacon went as far as to say that Edwards was ‘the only true friend’ he had ever had.