Bacon Und Kant

Anyone interested in establishing an intellectual connection between Kant and Bacon must first ask the question as to what similarity could exist between Kant, who carried out a transcendental turn in philosophy, and Bacon, the a oegeneralof empirical philosophy.a Only through such considerations can one understand why Kanta (TM)s first Critique announces a new epoch in philosophy with a passage from, ofall things, Bacona (TM)s Instauratio Magna.