For 10 points, name this 17th-century philosopher, who wrote the Novum Organum.
This thinker compared experimenters to ants and dogmatists to spiders, concluding that the true philosopher should emulate the bee. He wrote a novel about a group of Europeans who find the college Salomon's House on the island of Bensalem. This author of (*) The New Atlantis argued that thinkers should purge themselves of the "Idols of the Theater" in a book outlining the scientific method. For 10 points, name this 17th-century philosopher, who wrote the Novum Organum.
This thinker compared experimenters to ants and dogmatists to spiders, concluding that the true philosopher should emulate the bee.
Francis {Bacon}