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"For some present-day epistemologists, Bacon was a spokesman for a hopelessly naive induction by enumeration, and had thus nothing to do with the development of modern science. In striking contrast, the Frankfurt School criticized Bacon for being the very epitome of the modern scientific domination of nature and humankind." (p.1)
"Bacon's life was integrally linked to the political, courtly, and cultural elite of late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century England and London. Apart from his youthful stay in Paris, he rarely left the world of privilege and position into which he was born at York House, in London on 22 January 1561. His father, Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, had come from a modest social background, but had made his way to the uppermost rungs of Elizabethan society. Francis's mother, Sir Nicholas's second wife, Ann Cooke, was a well-educated Calvinist who tried to guide her two sons (Francis and his elder brother Anthony) with a firm hand. She was the sister-in-law of Wi!!iam Cecil, Lord Burghley. The most powerful statesman in Elizabethan England was thus Bacon's uncle." (p.2)
-Markku Peltonen, "Introduction", in Markku Peltonen (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Bacon, Cambridge Press University, 1996, 372 pages.
-Markku Peltonen (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Bacon, Cambridge Press University, 1996, 372 pages.
