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Melvyn Bragg and guests Patricia Fara, Stephen Pumfrey and Rhodri Lewis discuss the Jacobean lawyer, political fixer and alleged founder of modern science Francis Bacon. Show more Patricia Fara, ...

AMONG the many stimulating ideas elaborated by Sir Peter Medawar in his Presidential Address 1 to Section D of the British Association, for the Advancement of Science is the claim that the foundation ...