FTP, who was this British philosopher, author of "Novum Organum", "The Advancement of Learning", and "The New Atlantis"?
Like Montaigne, this thinker wrote a collection of brief articles known as "The Essays", although his are also known as "The Counsels, Civil and Moral". Described by Pope in "An Essay on Man" as "the brightest, wisest, (and) meanest of mankind" both for his intellectual gifts and for the disgrace suffered when he accepted a bribe from a litigant as a civil servant, he held that knowledge should be amassed and studied in a systematic fashion, prompting his attempt to create the ambitions "Instauratio Magna", parts of which described his method of induction and his "idols of the mind". FTP, who was this British philosopher, author of "Novum Organum", "The Advancement of Learning", and "The New Atlantis"?
Like Montaigne, this thinker wrote a collection of brief articles known as "The Essays", although his are also known as "The Counsels, Civil and Moral".
Francis Bacon