Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of the Portraits in the Possession of the Royal Society Francis bacon was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; entered Gray's Inn as a law student in 1576, and on being called to the bar went in the suite of the British ambassador to the court of France. On his return to England he ad vanced rapidly in his profession. In 1613 he was appointed Attorney General; in 1617 Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and in 1618 Lord Chancellor with the title of Baron Verulam. After enjoying for some ...
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Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of the Portraits in the Possession of the Royal Society Francis bacon was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge; entered Gray's Inn as a law student in 1576, and on being called to the bar went in the suite of the British ambassador to the court of France. On his return to England he ad vanced rapidly in his profession. In 1613 he was appointed Attorney General; in 1617 Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and in 1618 Lord Chancellor with the title of Baron Verulam. After enjoying for some years the honours of his high position and the renown due to his great learning, he fell from his high estate, was deprived of his various offices, imprisoned for a short time, and heavily fined. He devoted the remaining years of his life chiefly to scientific pursuits. His various works, and parti cularly that on the Instauration of the Sciences, have caused him to be regarded as the creator of the school of experimental philosophy, in some measure realized by the founding of the Royal Society; for it was whilst the memory of Bacon was recent, and the spirit of his philosophy newly spread, that the establishment of our great scientific Society was accomplished. His life fell a sacrifice to a philosophical experiment: a retort, which he had been using, burst; some of the fragments struck his face; and the wounds induced fever, of which he died. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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