bacon

The salted and smoked meat from the back and sides of a pig.

English philosopher, essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include The Advancement of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that came to be known as the inductive method.

Irish-born British painter best known for his portraits in which subjects are distorted and invested with feelings of terror.

English-born American colonist who led Bacon's Rebellion (1676), in which a group of frontiersmen captured and burned Jamestown in an attempt to gain reforms and greater participation in the government of Virginia.

English friar, scientist, and philosopher whose Opus Majus (1267) argued that Christian studies should encompass the sciences.