Nathaniel Bacon
Examples of Nathaniel Bacon in the following topics:
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Bacon's Rebellion
- Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by a 29-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon .
- When Berkeley refused to go against the Native Americans, farmers gathered to form a raiding party, of which Nathaniel Bacon was elected leader.
- Bacon's forces burned the colonial capital to the ground in September 1676.
- Portrait of Nathaniel Bacon, Engraving by T.
- Nathaniel Bacon led an uprising against Virginia Governor William Berkeley in 1676.
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Virginia
- After a lack of reform, Nathaniel Bacon began a rebellion in 1676 and captured Jamestown, taking control of the colony for several months.
- After the incident, which became known as Bacon's Rebellion, Berkeley returned himself to power with the help of the English militia.
- Bacon then burned Jamestown before abandoning it, and continued his rebellion until dying from disease.
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Settling the Colonial South and the Chesapeake
- In 1676, Bacon's Rebellion occurred as this polarized society and economic deprivation led farmers to attack the local tribes and government in pursuit of the unused Indian lands.
- Bacon's Rebellion showed how much influence the people could exert over their government when they disagreed with what the upper class in the government decided.
- While succeeding for a while, the rebellion fell apart when Nathaniel Bacon died, though it still left a reminder of how much influence the average settler had in early American government.
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Logic
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) is credited with formalizing inductive reasoning.
- Creighton argues that Bacon's Novum Organum was to replace Aristotle as the preeminent guide to the process of acquiring knowledge.
- "Bacon did for inductive logic what Aristotle did for the theory of the syllogism.
- It is of course, incorrect to say, as has sometimes been said, that Bacon invented the inductive method of reasoning. ...
- What Bacon endeavored to do was to analyze the inductive procedure, and to show what conditions must be fulfilled in order that truth may be reached in this way. " (Bacon, pps vii-viii)
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References
- Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & BaconDuncan, R.
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References
- Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
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European Postwar Expressionism
- Existentialist themes often framed the work of figurative artists such as Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Alberto Giacometti.
- Bacon and Freud were British painters who often painted expressive portraits noted for their psychological penetration.
- Francis Bacon, Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953, oil on canvas, 60 x 46 in.
- This painting by Bacon exemplifies a figurative portrayal of existential and individual angst that European Expressionists typically display in their work.
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References
- Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
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The Scientific Method
- The scientific method was used even in ancient times, but it was first documented by England's Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) who set up inductive methods for scientific inquiry.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) is credited with being the first to define the scientific method.
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The Emergence of "American" Literature
- Other notable works from this time period include Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851).