Shaking the scholarly world: Francis Bacon and 400 Years of the ‘Novum Organon’

Shaking the scholarly world: Francis Bacon and 400 Years of the ‘Novum Organon’

Tucked away among the treasures of Senate House Library is this ‘foundation of human progress and empowerment’, writes Dr Karen Attar. In October 1620 Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans and Baron Verulam, introduced the system of inductive logic with the...