The writer is a Conservative MP, shadow leader of the House of Commons and author of ‘The Winding Stair’, a historical novel about Francis Bacon and Edward Coke
Four centuries after his death on April 9 1626, Francis Bacon — philosopher, man of science and statesman — still stands at the intellectual centre of the modern world.
This is surprising. Bacon discovered no new scientific laws. He was not a mathematician, and he largely missed the extraordinary 17th-century drive of Galileo and Descartes, and later Newton, to quantify nature.
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