{"title":"Francis Bacon (1561-1626)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBacon recognized that knowledge's greatest obstacle wasn't ignorance but confident belief in falsehoods. He termed these fixed prejudices \"idols\" and argued systematic observation and rigorous experimentation offered the only escape route.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eHis 1620 \u003cem\u003eNovum Organum\u003c\/em\u003e presented new methods for acquiring knowledge, rejecting Aristotelian deduction for inductive logic built from observed facts. This challenged fifteen centuries of intellectual tradition and became profoundly consequential. The Royal Society, founded 1660, cited Bacon as intellectual father. Modern empirical science rests on foundations he designed. 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