Sir Francis Bacon’s Fascinating Life and Political Career, with Will Durant

“Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.”

Francis Bacon, Novum Oranum (1620), Book 1, Aphorism 1.

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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount Saint Alban, (22 January 1561 — 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and father of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method and pioneer in the scientific revolution.

Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. His works established and popularized inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method, or simply the scientific method. His demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things natural marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, much of which still surrounds conceptions of proper methodology today. His dedication probably led to his death, bringing him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments.

Bacon was knighted in 1603, and created both the Baron Verulam in 1618, and the Viscount St Alban in 1621; as he died without heirs both peerages became extinct upon his death. He famously died of pneumonia contracted while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat.

“Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed…”

“Now the empire of man over things depends wholly on the arts and sciences. For we cannot command nature except by obeying her.”

Francis Bacon, Novum Oranum (1620), Book 1, Aphorisms 3 and 129

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Elizabeth Warren on Fighting Back Against Wall St. Giants

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Published on Sep 5, 2014

Before returning to Washington for the start of Congress, Sen. Elizabeth Warren talks to Bill Moyers about the problems facing middle class Americans. “Washington works for those who can hire armies of lobbyists, armies of lawyers and get just the rules they want. It doesn’t work so well for American families,” Sen. Warren tells Moyers.

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Elizabeth Warren Destroys Reaganomics In 1 Minute

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Published on Jan 7, 2015

Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren criticized a US economy that she says favors the wealthy, just as President Obama sets off for Michigan as part of a US tour promoting his administration’s central, and continued, role in the economic recovery…

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Obama: Elizabeth Warren Is Wrong on Trade Deal

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Published on Apr 21, 2015

MATTHEWS: “Mr. President, obviously the hot question, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is out there saying things like this about the trade agreement, it’s going to help the rich get richer and leave everyone else behind. She also says it challenges U.S. Sovereignty. They are throwing the kitchen sink at this trade agreement which will involve 11 nations and ourselves on the pacific rim. Why are they seeing these things?”
OBAMA: “Well, I guess they don’t want it to happen. I love Elizabeth, we’re allies on a whole host of issues but she’s wrong on this. Chris, think about it, I spent the last six and a half years yanking this economy out of the worst recession since the great depression. Every single thing I’ve done, from the affordable care act to pushing to raise the minimum wage to making sure the young people are able to go to college and get good job training to what we’re pushing now in terms of sick pay leave, everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal. I would not be doing this trade deal if I did not think it was good for the middle class. And when you hear folks make a lot of suggestions about how bad this trade deal is when you dig into the facts, they are wrong.”

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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World: Mike Davis

Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history.

Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites.

Davis argues that the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World were sown in this era of High Imperialism, as the price for capitalist modernization was paid in the currency of millions of peasants’ lives.

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The New Organon: Francis Bacon

“Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.”

Francis Bacon, Novum Oranum (1620), Book 1, Aphorism 1.

Francis Bacon’s New Organon, published in 1620, was revolutionary in its attempt to give formal philosophical shape to a new and rapidly emerging experimental science. It challenged the entire edifice of the philosophy and learning of Bacon’s time, and left its mark on all subsequent discussions of scientific method.

“Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed…”

“Now the empire of man over things depends wholly on the arts and sciences. For we cannot command nature except by obeying her.”

Francis Bacon, Novum Oranum (1620), Book 1, Aphorisms 3 and 129

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Francis Bacon: The New Organon (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)| Francis Bacon, Lisa Jardine, Michael Silverthorne

“Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.”

Francis Bacon, Novum Oranum (1620), Book 1, Aphorism 1.

Francis Bacon’s New Organon, published in 1620, was revolutionary in its attempt to give formal philosophical shape to a new and rapidly emerging experimental science. It challenged the entire edifice of the philosophy and learning of Bacon’s time, and left its mark on all subsequent discussions of scientific method. This volume presents a new translation of the text into modern English by Michael Silverthorne, together with an introduction by Lisa Jardine that sets the work in the context of Bacon’s scientific and philosophical activities.

“Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed…”

“Now the empire of man over things depends wholly on the arts and sciences. For we cannot command nature except by obeying her.”

Francis Bacon, Novum Oranum (1620), Book 1, Aphorisms 3 and 129

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Books and the Sciences in History| Marina Frasca-Spada, Nick Jardine

The history of the sciences and the history of the book are complementary, and there has been much recent innovative research in the intersection of these lively fields. This accessibly-written, well-illustrated volume is the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship. The twenty specially-commissioned chapters cover the period from the Carolingian renaissance of learning to the mid-nineteenth-century consolidation of science, and examine all aspects of the authorship, production, distribution, and reception of manuscripts, books and journals in the various sciences.

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The Vatican calls on the “moral and religious imperative” of dealing with climate change – Climate Policy Observer

4th May 2015

Religious leaders, scientists and diplomats gathered at the Vatican for a one-day conference on climate change and sustainable development and issued a joint declaration stating that “human-induced climate change is a scientific reality, and its decisive mitigation is a moral and religious imperative for humanity.”

On Tuesday (April 28) the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, SDSN, and Religions for Peace organized a symposium at the Vatican (entitled “Protect the Earth, Dignify Humanity: The Moral Dimensions of Climate Change and Sustainable Humanity”) aimed to “ help strengthen the global consensus on the importance of climate change in the context of sustainable development”. Over 60 participants from academia, business, policy, and various religions attended the high-level event which represents a prologue to the papal encyclical on environment and climate change announced earlier this year and expected to be unveiled in June. Pope Francis met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon before the Secretary-General gave the opening address at the summit. Ban said he and the pope discussed Francis’ keenly awaited encyclical, which will be addressed to all of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics and which the pope has said he hopes will influence the Paris conference, Reuters reported.

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• Meeting at the Vatican between Pope Francis and Ban Ki-moon

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Meeting at the Vatican between Pope Francis and Ban Ki-moon

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Published on Apr 28, 2015

Environmental questions, the urgent needs of migrants, and humanitarian crises in conflict areas were some of the themes discussed during a brief meeting today at the Vatican between Pope Francis and Ban Ki-moon the Secretary General of the United Nations. The meeting took place on the occasion of an international symposium on moral issues related to climate change, organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. According to the Vatican Press Office, Ban Ki-moon expressed his gratitude to the Pope for accepting an invitation to speak at the United Nations next September. The Secretary General also expressed his excitement for the Pope’s upcoming encyclical on the environment.

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• The Vatican calls on the “moral and religious imperative” of dealing with climate change – Climate Policy Observer

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