Every great thinker kept notes. This one honors the philosopher who argued that knowledge must be built from observation and evidence - and in doing so laid the foundations of modern science.
This Bacon hardcover journal features a bold, graphic portrait on the front cover and a biographical tribute on the back - the story of the man behind the art, printed where you'll see it every time you pick it up. Part of the Architects of Reason collection. Designed for the work of serious thinking - study sessions, research, reflection, the pursuit of questions worth asking.
ABOUT FRANCIS BACON (1561–1626)
Bacon understood that the greatest obstacle to human knowledge was not ignorance but the confident assumption of things that weren't true. He called these assumptions idols - fixed prejudices of the tribe, the cave, the marketplace, and the theatre - and spent his career arguing that the only way past them was systematic observation and rigorous experimentation.
His Novum Organum, published in 1620, laid out a new method for acquiring knowledge that rejected the deductive reasoning of Aristotle in favor of inductive logic built from observed facts. It was a direct challenge to fifteen centuries of intellectual tradition and one of the most consequential books ever written. The Royal Society, founded in 1660, cited Bacon as its intellectual father. The entire edifice of modern empirical science rests on foundations he helped design.
He was also a lawyer, essayist, and statesman who rose to become Lord Chancellor of England (the highest legal office in the land) before being convicted of accepting bribes and spending the rest of his days in disgrace. He accepted the verdict, paid the fine, and returned to his writing and his experiments.
He died in 1626 after contracting pneumonia while stuffing a chicken with snow to test whether cold could preserve meat. It was exactly the kind of experiment he would have approved of.
PRODUCT FEATURES
- Hardcover with matte laminate finish
- Full wraparound portrait print
- Biographical tribute printed on back cover
- Flexible casewrap binding
- Perforated pages for clean tear-out
- 150 lined pages
- A tool for your ideas. A tribute to his.