Six Degrees of a Different Bacon
October 15, 2015 1:32 PM   Subscribe

Six Degrees of Francis Bacon. Collaboratively mapping connections in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. (Via)
posted by immlass (9 comments total) 20 users marked this as a favorite
 
But now the challenge is the Six Degrees of Double Bacon - can you get from Francis to Kevin in six or less steps?
posted by NoxAeternum at 2:29 PM on October 15, 2015


Has Kevin Bacon ever worked with Ralph (Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham) Fiennes? He's got like, actual Tudor-era notable ancestors.
posted by The Whelk at 2:52 PM on October 15, 2015


Next: Francis Bacon, Francis Bacon Roger, Bacon, and Kevin Bacon. Find two more Bacons, and we could have the time-travlleing adventures of the 6 Bacon 6.
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:18 PM on October 15, 2015


But now the challenge is the Six Degrees of Double Bacon - can you get from Francis to Kevin in six or less steps?

OK (with much help from Wikipedia):

Francis Bacon is connected on this chart to
James I of England, who was a patron of
William Shakespeare, who originally wrote the part of
Claudius, who was played in Hamlet at Elsinore by
Robert Shaw, who provided the basis for
Sebastian Shaw, who was played by
Kevin Bacon in X-Men: First Class

You could arguably skip a step by directly connecting Bacon and Shakespeare, but the chart only gives them an 18% chance of having met so I nixed it.
posted by Copronymus at 3:43 PM on October 15, 2015 [7 favorites]


Very cool. Thanks for posting.
posted by kisch mokusch at 4:03 PM on October 15, 2015


Now do it for *Roger* Bacon.
posted by Chrysostom at 8:46 PM on October 15, 2015


Six Degrees of Francis Bacon would be a good subtitle for Foucault's Pendulum.
posted by doctoryes at 9:36 PM on October 15, 2015


Does this confirm what the Stratfordians have always maintained?
posted by rmmcclay at 9:44 PM on October 15, 2015


This is the coolest! (It also reminds me that all the people in my field who do digital humanities stuff will always be way, way more awesome than me. )
posted by Dorinda at 9:52 PM on October 15, 2015


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