Francis Bacon as the Author of Anatomy of Melancholy

The Anatomy of Melancholy (full title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up) is a book by Robert Burton first published in 1621.  

Some have noticed that there are some similarities between the writings of Francis Bacon and what appears in The Anatomy of Melancholy. For example, see the Baconian Reference Book by Lochithea (see here at pg. 192: http://www.fbrt.org.uk/pages/essays/baconian_reference_book_archive.pdf).

I decided to examine the frontispiece of The Anatomy of Melancholy, and after some trial and error, I decided to try to line-up some the symbols on the page.  (I don't know what they all symbolize.) My results are shown below.  This is a copy of the Third Edition copy.  I think I downloaded it from Archive.org, but I am not sure.  The copy has a stamp showing it is the copy in the possession of the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.

On the frontispiece, there is something like a "h" symbol in two of the little illustrations (I found out that is the symbol for the planet Saturn), so I lined them up.  I notice the hand and foot of the "Maniac" lined up with letters in the area of the title.  He seems to pick the letter "p"out of the middle of the word "Philosophically" and his foot rests on the "Ed" in the word "Edition."  I highlighted the letters in red and then I lined them up in another overlay.  The name "BACON" appears in an alignment of letters running through the word "Author."  So, it seems Francis Bacon may in fact be the author of The Anatomy of Melancholy.

Also notice that in the first alignment of the letter "h", the image of the king lines up with the image of the writer Democritus with a book.  Interesting.

 

I also discovered that the poem describing the images on the frontispiece contains clues to discover the aligns shown below.  See this post: https://hiddenmessagesinshakespeare.blogspot.com/2015/05/clue-from-argument-of-frontispiece-of.html.