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 656 Oittlmes of European History wrote clear textbooks on algebra and that branch of mathematics known as analytical geometry, of which he was the discoverer. Francis Bacon, an English lawyer and government official, spent his spare hours explaining how men could increase their fjS' l/JfSatn {inorftnij c^^nfis, ] ' 111 .16 0.6 ^-ftnian jictat' 66. y, „ s '^ ^^^=s^ Fig. 225. Francis Bacon Francis knowledge. He too wrote in his native tongue as well as in Latin. Bacons ij u New Atlantis Fie was the most eloquent representative of the new science which renounced authority and relied upon experi??ient. "We are the ancients," he declared, not those who lived long ago when the world was young and men ignorant. Late in life he wrote a little book, which he never finished, called the