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With different nuances and from diverse analyses, scholars agree to maintain that the interaction of law and natural philosophy contributed to originate distinctive conceptual categories such as facts, certainty, and probability during the early-modern period. From this historiographical account, Francis Bacon has been highlighted as one of the most influential authors who merged legal thinking with natural science. His idea of natural history and his project of reform of natural philosophy are undoubtedly permeated with legal overtones. Bacon was both an active professional jurist, engaged in the legal debates of the day, and a philosopher, deeply committed to the renovation of natural philosophy. Although this conjunction of Bacon as a jurist and Bacon as a natural philosopher has attracted the attention of several scholars, relatively little has been said about the concrete ways in which Bacon’s