The Instauratio Magna Part II: Novum Organum and Associated Texts (Oxford English Texts) (Pt. 2) (Hardcover)

by Francis Bacon (Author), Graham Rees (Editor), Maria Wakely (Contributor) "Since he knew for a fact that the human intellect was the author of its own difficulties by not applying calmly and opportunely the right..." (more)
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The work has been printed with care and it is a handsome and dignified-looking hardback. Daniel Spelda, Acta Comeniana extremely useful both for the specialist reader and for the beginning student of Baconian thought. Silvia Manzo, Cambridge University Press Rees's translation of Novum organum supplies a long-felt need for a scholarly edition of this work ... meticulous attention to detail, judicious scholarship, humor, and a deep understanding of the richness and complexity of Bacon's natural philosophy. Sophie Weeks, Sixteenth Century Journal

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Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was a genuine midwife of modernity. He was one of the first thinkers to visualize a future that would be guided by a cooperative science-based vision of bettering human welfare. In this the first critical edition of his greatest philosophical work since the nineteenth-century, we find facing-page Latin translations and a thorough and detailed Introduction to the text.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 768 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; illustrated edition edition (May 20, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0199247927
• ISBN-13: 978-0199247929
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.7 x 1.7 inches
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