Francis Bacon was considered the father of the scientific method, with his grand visions of inventing all manner of things to improve the human condition. Government investment in research, he believed, could enable and inspire these inventions. Now comes an informal biography of Bacon in a new book, The "Crime" of Francis Bacon. It was written in the 1950s by Edgar Kemler, an author and Howard University government professor, but was never...
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