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  1. Francis!!!

    Thomas Jefferson considered Bacon, Locke, and Newton the three greatest men that ever lived.

    At least that is the interpretation most historians give to this image hand-drawn by Jefferson in this letter.

    Notice Bacon is on top! Maybe there is another explanation…

    In his letter Jefferson wrote:

    I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.

    Letter to Alexander Donald (7 February 1788)

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