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Francis Bacon (1561-1626), 1st Viscount St Alban, was an English Renaissance essayist and philosopher. A British materialist philosopher, the founder of experimental science, the founder of modern induction, and a pioneer in logically organizing scientific research procedures.

Main works include "New Tools", "On the Advancement of Science" and "The Great Revival of Academics".

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Bacon fundamentally criticized the academic tradition since ancient Greece. He was dissatisfied with the ancient Greek philosophers and the academic tradition that originated from them, which was light on natural philosophy and focused on moral philosophy, political philosophy and theology. He believed that it was this tradition that hindered the development of natural philosophy and kept natural philosophy in a naive state.

Bacon believes that the little natural philosophy research conducted by ancient Greek philosophers, especially Aristotle’s natural philosophy research, is also inadequate. Bacon criticized Aristotle's speculative philosophy, believing that Aristotle subordinated the understanding of nature to useless speculation, logic and dialectics, and constructed the world with logical categories such as potential and reality, which made his natural philosophy rich. For speculation but no practical use.

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