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What do you think of Francis Bacon?
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Mmm, bacon
I'm indifferent to bacon
Bleh, bacon
I don't consider him as food

In 1588, Galileo had not yet looked through a telescope.
Microscopes, pendulum clocks, barometers, and steam pumps were decades away.
Francis Bacon,
a member of parliament still in his twenties,
was only beginning his writing on science.
Robert Boyle wouldn’t be born for another 39 years,
Isaac Newton for another 55.
But a subtle shift in perspective was already taking place,
heralding the
‘culture of growth’
that would blossom i…

The Renaissance book that heralded growth - Works in Progress Magazine
Long before modern science, Europeans learned to see their own time as an age of invention rather than decline.

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #WordsAndMusic
Gerard Schurmann, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Gerard Schurmann:
🎵 Self-Portrait (6 Studies of Francis Bacon)
#GerardSchurmann #BBCSymphonyOrchestra