Lorraine Daston – Who was Sir Francis Bacon?
Thursday, February 24, 2022 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm CET/GMT+1Online Lecture
Every age has its Bacon, and all contain a grain of truth: Bacon the prophetic visionary of modern science and technology, Bacon the diehard empiricist and foe of theory, Bacon the exploiter of nature, Bacon the crafty statesman, Bacon the master of English prose. But who was Bacon in his own time and place? This lecture situates Bacon and his reformed natural philosophy back in his original historical context, a time of novelty and upheaval.
Prof. Dr. Lorraine Daston is Director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
This event is hosted by the Early Modern Science core and the Science and Religion Project, and supported by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
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