This ambitious and important book provides the first truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. It explores in detail how and why Bacon attempted to transform the largely esoteric discipline of natural philosophy into a public practice through a program in which practical science provided a model that inspired many from the 17th to the 20th centuries. This book will be recognized as a major contribution to Baconian scholarship of special interest to historians of early modern philosophy, science, and ideas.
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This ambitious and important book provides the first truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. It explores in detail how and why Bacon attempted to transform the largely esoteric discipline of natural philosophy into a public practice through a program in which practical science provided a model that inspired many from the 17th to the 20th centuries.This book will be recognized as a major contribution to Baconian scholarship of special interest to historians of early-modern philosophy, science, and ideas.
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I am unable to view many of the footnotes. By this I mean that the superscript note number does not function as a link: when I move the cursor over it, there is no way to click on it (except to highlight it, as one can highlight any text whatsoever.) For instance, in Chapter One, notes 3, 5, 11, 17, 24, 25, 41, 47, 48, 50, 51, 53, 54, 58, 67, and 70 are missing. In Chapter Two, notes 13, 14, 17, 25-28, 31, 46, 57-58. 63-65, and 68-70 are missing. And so on, throughout the book. When I scroll through the notes pages (at the very end of the book), many of the missing notes turn up, but out of sequence. Obviously, this is a very inefficient way to check references, etc., and some notes do not appear at all. I hope Amazon and/or the publisher will remedy the situation.
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Bacon's project was to harness firmly to the yoke of the state a new attitude to knowledge, and in the course of attempting to do this, he was led to think through and transform this new attitude to knowledge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pursuing natural philosophy, eliminative induction, informative truths, partus masculus, internal impediments, terrestrial fire, great instauration, grosser parts, matter theory, impetus theory, diurnal motion, practical mathematics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, New York, Sylva Sylvarum, Valerius Terminus, John Dee, Scientific Revolution, Early Modern Europe, Golden Age, Gresham College, Idols of the Tribe, Middle Ages, Thomas Digges, Tycho Brahe, New Atlantis, Phxnomena Universi, Quentin Skinner, Solomon's House, Thomas Harriot, Diogenes Laertius, Eckhard Kessler, Gray's Inn, Intellectual Biography, Lord Chancellor, The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy New!
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Bacon's project was to harness firmly to the yoke of the state a new attitude to knowledge, and in the course of attempting to do this, he was led to think through and transform this new attitude to knowledge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pursuing natural philosophy, eliminative induction, informative truths, partus masculus, internal impediments, terrestrial fire, great instauration, grosser parts, matter theory, impetus theory, diurnal motion, practical mathematics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, New York, Sylva Sylvarum, Valerius Terminus, John Dee, Scientific Revolution, Early Modern Europe, Golden Age, Gresham College, Idols of the Tribe, Middle Ages, Thomas Digges, Tycho Brahe, New Atlantis, Phxnomena Universi, Quentin Skinner, Solomon's House, Thomas Harriot, Diogenes Laertius, Eckhard Kessler, Gray's Inn, Intellectual Biography, Lord Chancellor, The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy New!
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- Novum Organum (Spanish Edition) by Francis Bacon on 24 pages
- Francis Bacon by Benjamin Farrington on 10 pages
- Francis Bacon: From Magic to Science by Paolo Rossi on 6 pages
- The History of Philosophy (1701) by Thomas Stanley on 6 pages
- The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy by C. B. Schmitt on 6 pages
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- Francis Bacon And the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought: Essays to Commemorate the Advancement of Learning (1605-2005) (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity) by Julie Robin Solomon on page 212, and Back Matter
- Power, Knowledge, and Expertise in Elizabethan England (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science) by Eric H. Ash in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Robert Hooke: Tercentennial Studies by Michael Cooper in Back Matter
- A Subtle and Mysterious Machine: The Medical World of Walter Charleton (1619-1707) (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science) by Emily Booth in Back Matter
- A Modern Introduction to Theology: New Questions for Old Beliefs by Philip Kennedy in Back Matter
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