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  <name><![CDATA[Francis Bacon]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist. He is also known as a proponent of the scientific revolution. Indeed, according to John Aubrey, his dedication may have brought him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments.

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  <title><![CDATA[The Essays]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The New Atlantis]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[New Atlantis and The Great Instauration, Revised Edition]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The New Organon]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lisa Jardine]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Francis Bacon: The Major Works]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More, Utopia; Francis Bacon, New Atlantis; Henry Neville, The Isle of Pines]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Henry Neville]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Thomas More]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Of Empire]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Advancement of Learning]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Francis Bacon: Novum Organum - With Other Parts of The Great Instauration (Volume 3, Paul Carus Student Editions)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Essays, Advancement of learning, New Atlantis, and Other Pieces]]></title>
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