Thomas Browne was a follower of this thinker, who wrote Valerius Terminus in search of apost-Aristotelian philosophia prima.
Thomas Browne was a follower of this thinker, who wrote Valerius Terminus in search of apost-Aristotelian philosophia prima. He critiqued atheists in his religious Meditationes Sacrae, andsaid that human nature, individual biases, "ill and unfit choice of words," or tradition can all lead themind astray in his six-part Instauratio Magna. This man shares a surname with the medieval authorof the Opus Maius, "Doctor Mirabilis". He gave the names of (*) tribe, cave, marketplace, and theater tofour "idols" of human error. He described the researchers of Salomon's House on the utopian isle ofBensalem in The New Atlantis. For 10 points, name this Englishman who championed scientific inductionin Novum Organum.
Thomas Browne was a follower of this thinker, who wrote Valerius Terminus in search of apost-Aristotelian philosophia prima.
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban