ChemE Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:
> I now he was smart and all but, > > He famously died by contracting > pneumonia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonia> while > studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat. > An experimentalist to the end. > But just how smart? > Read his books and find out for yourself. Here is one on line, although I prefer another translation of it: http://history.hanover.edu/texts/Bacon/novorg.html (It is a translation because he wrote in Latin.) For a general introduction, see Loren Eiseley, "The Man Who Saw Through Time." I am huge fan of Eiseley. - Jed
