# Francis Bacon — Representative Men character guide

> Francis Bacon in Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Bacon, Lord Bacon

**First appearance:** 0000-i-uses-of-great-men

## Who they are

English philosopher and statesman, cited as a representative of empirical science.

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