Francis Bacon Dies of a Frozen Chicken
April 9, 1626
The English philosopher of inductive science, riding through the snow near Highgate, stopped to stuff a chicken with snow in an experiment on refrigeration. He caught a fatal chill and died days later. His last letter described the experiment as a success, which in a way it was. The father of empiricism had perished in the act of empirical inquiry.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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