| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Bacon, Francis. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Ba·con |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b  k n |
| DATES: | 1561–1626 |
| TITLE: | First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans |
| English philosopher, essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include The Advancement of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that came to be known as the inductive method.
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