Volume two of a two volume set. (This description is for both volumes.) Contains much of Bacon's principle writings in mathematics, optics, experimental science, and philosophy. Bacon is regarded as the first modern scientist. This is one of his major works with 8 plates and 72 illustrations.
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HAVING explained the fundamental principles of wisdom, both sacred and human, which are found in the tongues from which the sciences of the Latins have been translated, and likewise in mathematics, I now wish to discuss some principles which belong to optics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
anterior glacialis, accidental rays, solar pyramid, principal multiplication, glacial humor, terminates vision, radiant pyramid, common nerve, visual pyramid, crystalline humor, estimative faculty, cogitative faculty, zenith overhead, rarer medium, ultimate perception, rainbow cannot, excessive distance, visual cone, same position with respect, visual ray, visual force, vision judges, external transmission, future felicity, weblike structure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Holy Spirit, Tusculan Disputations, Natural History, City of God, Hence Seneca, Jesus Christ, Natural Questions, Friar William, God the Father, King of France, Therefore Aristotle, Wonders of the World, Elements of Euclid, Elements of Morals, God of Socrates, Hence Avicenna, Son of God, Therefore Seneca New!
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HAVING explained the fundamental principles of wisdom, both sacred and human, which are found in the tongues from which the sciences of the Latins have been translated, and likewise in mathematics, I now wish to discuss some principles which belong to optics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
anterior glacialis, accidental rays, solar pyramid, principal multiplication, glacial humor, terminates vision, radiant pyramid, common nerve, visual pyramid, crystalline humor, estimative faculty, cogitative faculty, zenith overhead, rarer medium, ultimate perception, rainbow cannot, excessive distance, visual cone, same position with respect, visual ray, visual force, vision judges, external transmission, future felicity, weblike structure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Holy Spirit, Tusculan Disputations, Natural History, City of God, Hence Seneca, Jesus Christ, Natural Questions, Friar William, God the Father, King of France, Therefore Aristotle, Wonders of the World, Elements of Euclid, Elements of Morals, God of Socrates, Hence Avicenna, Son of God, Therefore Seneca New!
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- Tusculan disputations (Classical texts) by Marcus Tullius Cicero on 15 pages
- Seneca: Naturales Quaestiones, Books 1-3 (Loeb Classical Library No. 450) (Bks.I-III v. 1) by Seneca on page 262, and page 269
- The Nature of the Gods (Penguin Classics) by Marcus Tullius Cicero on page 406
- Moral Philosophy by Roger Bacon on page 375
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