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Francis Bacon in Podcasts

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Francis Bacon was a philosopher and scientist who promoted empirical scientific methods in the 17th century.

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Humanists, the Happy Heathens

One of the people we have to thank for that is Francis Bacon, known as the father of empiricism.

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Why Rome Actually Fell: Plagues, Slavery, & Ice Age โ€” Kyle Harper

And this is something very important in the 17th century that the Romans, by contrast, don't have is you have like the spirit of Francis Bacon that we need to ground our knowledge in experiment and observation, not just believe whatever โ€“