2. Francis Bacon was a philosopher and the founder of empiricism in Britain in the 16th and 17th centuries. He came from a family in new noble, and his father was the king's minister in charge of the seal. Bacon entered Oxford University when he was 12 years old. After graduating from the university, he began to go into politics, and successively served as the chief prosecutor of the court and the minister in charge of the seal. In his later years, he was framed by conspiracy and expelled from the court, divorced from his political career, and devoted himself to academic research and writing activities. His main works are: Academic Progress, New Tools, New Island, etc. Bacon's greatest contribution to philosophy is that he put forward a series of principles of materialist empiricism.