Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans, English philosopher, scientist and statesman Size:L: 75 x 50cm These inventions are widely assumed

These inventions are widely assumed to have inspired Jules Verne's 1886 novel Robur le conquÚrant (Robur the Conqueror or The Clipper of the Clouds) Figure 112 from Animal locomotion or walking

A serious-looking man with a fur collar holds a rolled-up document in one hand

The statues of the giants Gog and Magog are visible at the far end

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Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans, English philosopher, scientist and statesman Size:L: 75 x 50cm These inventions are widely assumedSir Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans, English philosopher, scientist and statesman. Bacon (1561 1626) became Lord Chancellor in 1618. In science he advocated observation and experiment as a method of enquiry rather than Aristotelian deductive logic.