Francis Bacon - English philosopher, historian, politician, founder of empiricism. Author of the philosophical utopia “New Atlantis”. “Experiments” is a collection of short essays, or essays, containing reflections on moral and political topics. A year before his death, in the dedication to the third English edition of the Essays, Bacon admitted: “They belong to the best fruits that by God’s grace my pen could bear.” “The Great Restoration of the Sciences” is Bacon’s main philosophical work, contrasted by the author with Aristotle’s “Organon.”