I’m a complete newcomer to information on Bacon and his time. How much of his influence was due to Novum Organum itself vs other things he did? If significantly the latter, what were those things? Feel free to tell me to Google that.
At the very least “The New Atlantis”, a fictional utopian novel he wrote, was quite influential, at least in that it’s usually cited as one of the primary inspirations for the founding of the royal society:
I’m a complete newcomer to information on Bacon and his time. How much of his influence was due to Novum Organum itself vs other things he did? If significantly the latter, what were those things? Feel free to tell me to Google that.
At the very least “The New Atlantis”, a fictional utopian novel he wrote, was quite influential, at least in that it’s usually cited as one of the primary inspirations for the founding of the royal society:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Atlantis#Influences