For 10 points, name this English philosopher who advocated induction and the scientific method in his Novum Organum.
This thinker criticizes empiricists as ants who amass supplies and rationalists as spiders who spin webs to trap food, before asserting people should imitate bees. In another work people are quarantined in the "House of Strangers." He wrote a work discussing the eleven "pecant humors" that outlined "fantastical" "contentious" and "delicate" as the three distempers of education. This author of The Advancement of Learning identified the tribe, den, marketplace and theatre as the "four idols" and imagined a research institution called "Salomon's House" on the island of Bensalem in his New Atlantis. For 10 points, name this English philosopher who advocated induction and the scientific method in his Novum Organum.
This thinker criticizes empiricists as ants who amass supplies and rationalists as spiders who spin webs to trap food, before asserting people should imitate bees.
Sir Francis Bacon