
Peter Michael Urbach
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LOCATION: London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom
Reader in Philosophy, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. Author of Francis Bacon's Philosophy of Science: An Account and a Reappraisal.
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Francis Bacon was the lord chancellor of England (1618–21). A lawyer, statesman, philosopher, and master of the English tongue, he is remembered in literary terms for the sharp worldly wisdom of a few dozen essays; by students of constitutional history for his power as a speaker in Parliament and…
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