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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, Bacon climbed the Tudor-Stuart hierarchy, serving as Attorney General and finally Lord Chancellor under James I. But his lasting work was philosophical: he argued that real knowledge comes only from inductive reasoning and careful observation, not inherited dogma. The specific steps of his Baconian method faded, but the broader insistence on sceptical, methodical inquiry made him a founder of the scientific method and earned him the label "father of empiricism." He also designed a cataloguing system for libraries, dividing books into history, poetry, and philosophy — and left the aphorism that some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, a few chewed and digested. Knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618 and Viscount St Alban in 1621, he died without heirs in 1626 at sixty-five and is buried at St Michael's Church, St Albans.