The Strange World of Francis Bacon
Monday, February 23, 2026 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm CET/GMT+1Online
Who was Francis Bacon? A courtier, a lawyer, a statesman, a man of the world – but also a visionary, whose plans to reform science and to use science to transform technology and society still fascinate today.
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Prof. Dr. Lorraine Daston is director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, visiting professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and permanent fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Her award-winning work spans a broad range of topics in the early modern and modern history of science. Professor Daston is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the American Philosophical Society and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, and a corresponding member of the British Academy.
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