Francis+Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Francis Bacon was the fifth son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Queen Elizabeth I's Lord Keeper of the Great Seal (a high governmental post). At the age of 12 Bacon studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and developed his dislike of the standard academic philosophy of his day. He described his teachers as "men of sharp wits, shut up in their cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle, their Dictator." In 1575 he moved to Gray's Inn, a law school that catered to the extravagant and wild lifestyles of the young nobility as well as the academic interests of the studious. Bacon was 18 when his father died, leaving him with little money. He then began to seriously study law in order to make his living, and through his talent and family connections began a career in politics, gaining a seat in parliament when he was 23. His career suffered from competition with his relatives, especially the powerful Cecil family. The elder Cecil, Lord Burghley, quite naturally preferred to advance his son's career over Bacon's. Bacon turned to the Cecils' rival, the Earl of Essex, to promote his career. However, when Essex was involved in a plot to kidnap the Queen, Bacon had no qualms in helping to prosecute his former patron. In 1603 James I succeeded to the English throne and Bacon's career then advanced apace. In 1617 he became the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, the same office his father had held. He was made Lord Chancellor and created Baron in 1618, and finally given the title Viscount St. Albans in 1621. However, that year he was accused and found guilty of bribery. His public career ruined, he retired to his estate to devote his remaining years to his writings. Bacon had already developed a literary reputation. He had penned a number of masques for Royal entertainment. In 1597 he had published a collection of essays on various topics, from gardening to the nature of good and evil. In 1605 he published //The Advancement of Learning//, a new categorization of the whole of the natural sciences. He continued this theme with the //Novum Organum// (1620), which outlined a new method of natural philosophy to replace Aristotle (384-322 B.C.). Bacon proposed that, through his method of induction, the secrets of the universe could be unlocked and used to benefit society. His method involved the unbiased, almost random, collection of data, which would later be generalized into rules of nature. Bacon's method never became popular, but many of his other ideas proved influential. In the //New Atlantis// (1626), he described an imaginary society of scientists, which had a profound effect on many of those who founded the British Royal Society. His death resulted from a misadventure many see as typical of Bacon's concept of science. Bacon had a sudden impulse to see whether snow would help preserve meat, and so he stopped his carriage, acquired a hen, and buried it in the snow. However, he caught a sudden chill, from which he died shortly after. Can be ????? Bacon is Shakespeare ==· The literary works of 'Shakespeare' are hidden with codes and secret messages. A Latin work from 1616 uses the first 53 paragraphs’ first letters to spell “Franciscus Godwinvvs Landavensis Episcopus hos conscripsit” which translates to Francis Godwin, Bishop of Llandalf, wrote these lines. == == · He was educated of Cambridge University, alongside William Clerke who proclaimed that in his Polimanteia, the author of the Shakespearian plays was a graduate of Cambridge. · On the cover of Northumberland Manuscript, the names William Shakespeare and Francis Bacon were noted on the cover. This occurrence takes place by other plays as well such as Richard II and Richard III. - - - All noted stating “by Francis William Shakespeare” or “essays by the same author.” This phenomena has been used to prove Sir Francis Bacon used the name Shakespeare as a nom de plume (pen name). · "Without a mask, Bacon's plan for his Instauratio Magna would not have been possible; William Shakespeare was a necessary feature in the vast scheme of Bacon's philosophic experiment which had the world for its theatre, ages for its accomplishment, and posterity for its beneficiaries." --- Introduction to facsimile of Manes Verulamiani, by W.G.C. Gundry, Barrister-at-Law (Chiswick Press, London 1956). · Hamlet was originally written in 1586, but was not printed until 1603. In Ophelia’s letter it states, “ Doubt that in earth is fire, Doubt that the stars do move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But do not doubt I love.” At the time these lines were written, it was not yet a universal thought that the earth’s core was magma. This controversy led to another year to draft and edit the works of Hamlet. In September of 1603, Bacon wrote tract called Cogitationes de Natura Rerum. In this work, Bacon states that the earth’s core is a “cold body, cold to the core,” Evidently, in the 1604 edition of Hamlet, the letter’s line was changed to say “Doubt that the stars are fire.” · In a letter written to John Davies, Sir Francis Bacon says, “so desiring you to be good to concealed poets, I continue, yours very assured, Fr. Bacon." John Davies was a lawyer in the late 1500’s and early 1600’s who wrote poetry on the side. His works were beloved by Sir Francis Bacon. · Someone of high position could only have accessed all works and backdrops of high standing officials and locations. William Shakespeare, based on written biographies, was not a man of high authority. Sir Francis Bacon in fact fits this specific criterion. He would have had the knowledge and the access to all of the backdrops and explanations in the works of such locations. == (I am my own man!!!) > > = Shakespeare can not be Bacon  =
 * Sir Francis Bacon’s eligibility as the true author of Shakespeare’s work rests in his legal knowledge and general education. It is known that Bacon was familiar with Rosicrucian, Hermetic, Kabbalistic and Neoplatonic themes. The poem //Venus and Adonis//, //As You Like It,// and //Love’s Labour’s Lost// all feature Rosicrucian themes but this does not mean Sir Francis wrote them; only that he was in a position to write about Rosicrucian themes.
 * Unfortunately this is where the similarity ends as "Shakespeare" discusses legal concepts and terms far more abstractly than Bacon. Even worse for Bacon supporters is the question of where Bacon could find the time to write 37 plays, and 154 sonnets, and act in many of these own plays while leading a double life.
 * Furthermore the claim that Bacon authored Shakespeare’s poetry suffers from the fact that Bacon’s poetry is abrupt and has an unnatural feel to it, unlike Shakespear's. Bacon supporters reply that Francis Bacon’s //Promus// is the only surviving collection of terms and phrases which occur commonly in Shakespeare’s plays. Unfortunately this does not mean Bacon authored them. Like Stratfordians, evidence for authorship is highly subjective.

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