Sir Francis Bacon Mystery Cache
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Sir Francis Bacon (22 January 1561 - 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. His works are seen as developing the scientific method and remained influential through the scientific revolution.
Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. He argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature. Most importantly, he argued science could be achieved by the use of a sceptical and methodical approach whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading themselves. Although his most specific proposals about such a method did not have long-lasting influence, the general idea of the importance and possibility of a sceptical methodology makes Bacon the father of the scientific method. This provided a new rhetorical and theoretical framework for science whose practical details are still central to debates on science and methodology.
Francis Bacon was a patron of libraries and developed a system for cataloguing books under three categories (history, poetry, and philosophy) which could further be divided into specific subjects and subheadings. About books he is credited with saying, "Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested."
Bacon was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he followed the standard medieval curriculum, written for the most part in Latin.
Bacon also proposed the cipher that bears his name. The Bacon Cipher would allow secret messages to be passed in plain sight. By using different typefaces to encode single letters in five-character sequences one could openly publish an article or letter, with no one other than the recipient aware of the secret code. However, given the state of typography at the time, it is unlikely that Bacon ever actually implemented his cipher. Documents of that era were often set using many different typefaces, as typesetters would use whatever was available when preparing the document for printing. When using this code, consider only letters and numbers; ignore all punctuation.
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