Essays, Civil and Moral, New Atlantis, Areopagitica, Tractate on Education, Religio Medici: Harvard Classics 1909

Francis Bacon was born in London in 1561. A powerful member of Parliament and lord chancellor under King James I, he was among the first of the English philosophers. He died in 1626.
Stephen Jay Gould is the Alexander Agassiz professor of zoology and professor of geology at Harvard and the Vincent Astor visiting professor of biology at New York University. Recent books include Full House, Dinosaur in a Haystack, and Questioning the Millennium. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City.

Charles W. Eliot (1834-1926) was president of Harvard University for 40 years. He lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.