Question: Who had more political power, Francis Bacon or Thomas Bushell?
Context: Thomas Bushell (c. 1593 – 1674) was a servant of Francis Bacon who went on to become a mining engineer and defender of Lundy Island for the Royalist cause during the Civil War.  He had an interest in solitary and penitential living which has led him to be identified as a forerunner of the secular hermits of the Georgian period. The Francis Bacon Opera is a comic chamber opera in one act composed by Stephen Crowe.  The libretto is based on Crowe's transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with the British artist Francis Bacon, filmed for "The South Bank Show" in 1985.  The opera was first performed in its final version on 8 August 2012 in London, and went on to win the Hilton Edwards Award in May 2013. The phrase "scientia potentia est"" (or "scientia est potentia" or also "scientia potestas est")" is a Latin aphorism meaning "knowledge is power".  It is commonly attributed to Sir Francis Bacon, although there is no known occurrence of this precise phrase in Bacon's English or Latin writings.  However, the expression ""ipsa scientia potestas est"" ('knowledge itself is power') occurs in Bacon's "Meditationes Sacrae" (1597).  The exact phrase ""scientia potentia est"" was written for the first time in the 1668 version of the work "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes, who was secretary to Bacon as a young man. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; 22 January 15619 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author.  He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England.  After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. Cwmerfin lead mine is of prehistoric origin and was owned in the first half of the seventeenth century by Sir Hugh Myddelton (1560–1631) and Thomas Bushell ( 1593–1674).  As well as lead ore the mine produced zinc, copper and silver ore.  The mine closed in 1889. Thomas Bushell (c. 1834 – 12 September 1865) was a convict transported to Western Australia.  He was hanged in 1865 after attacking a warder. Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (French: "Francis Bacon-Logique de la sensation" ) is a 1981 book by Gilles Deleuze, in which the author creates novel concepts related to art, aesthetics, percepts and sensation through the example of the work of the celebrated English painter Francis Bacon.  It was translated into English by Daniel W. Smith. Portrait of George Dyer Talking is an oil painting by Francis Bacon executed in 1966.  It is a portrait of his lover George Dyer made at the height of Bacon's creative power.  It depicts Dyer sitting on a revolving office stool in a luridly coloured room.  His body and face are contorted, and his legs are tightly crossed.  His head appears to be framed within a window or door.  Above him is a naked hanging lightbulb, a favourite motif of Bacon's.  The work contains a number of spatial ambiguities, not least that Dyer's body seems to be positioned both in the fore- and background. Garry Bushell (born 13 May 1955, Woolwich, South East London) is an English newspaper columnist, rock music journalist, television presenter, author and political activist.  Bushell also sings in the Oi!  band the Gonads and manages the New York City Oi!  band Maninblack.  Bushell's recurring topical themes are comedy, country and class.  He has campaigned for an English Parliament, a Benny Hill statue and for variety and talent shows on TV.  Although his TV column "Bushell on the Box" still appears weekly in the "Daily Star Sunday", Bushell now focuses on his band, novels and his one-man stand-up show. The Romantics, in seeking to understand Nature in her living essence, studied the 'Father of Science', Sir Francis Bacon.  The view of Bacon and the 'inductive method' that emerges is quite a different one from that that tended to prevail both before and then after, here mainly due to John Stuart Mill's interpretation later in the 1800s.  For the Romantics, induction as generally interpreted 'was not enough to produce correct understanding in Bacon's terms.'  They saw another side of Bacon, generally not developed, one in which nature was a labyrinth not open to "excellence of wit" nor "chance experiments": "Our steps must be guided by a clue, and see what way from the first perception of the sense must be laid out upon a sure plan."
Answer: Francis Bacon