"Francis Bacon had essayed to sum up the past of physical science, and to indicate the path which it must follow if its great destinies were to be fulfilled. And though the attempt was just such a magnificent failure as might have been expected from a man of great endowments, who was so singularly devoid of scientific insight that he could not understand the value of the work already achieved by the true instaurators of physical science; yet the majestic eloquence and the fervid vaticinations of one who was conspicuous alike by the greatness of his rise and the depth of his fall, drew the attention of all the world to the 'new birth of Time.'"
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Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century (1889)
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Francis Bacon
1561 – 1626
englischer Philosoph, Staatsmann und Naturwissenschaftler
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