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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)
Key Phrases: latent schematism, monadic instances, historiarum particularium, Loeb Classical Library, Diogenes Laertius, Francis Bacon (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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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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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 remedies which lie within man's power-whence comes manifold ignorance of things and from that ignorance countless disadvantages-he thought that every effort should be directed to seeing how the commerce between the Mind and Things (to which scarcely anything on Earth or, at any rate, earthly things can compare) could be entirely restored, or at least put on a better footing. Read the first page

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latent schematism, monadic instances, historiarum particularium, vncertaintie ofartes, aeris transmutationibus, armed loadstone, nature under investigation, magna preliminaries, qux sunt, native human reason, interpretatione nature, calendar glass, sperandum est, vsu est, indicia vera, see cmts, skeleton formes, pneumatic matter, ferrum ignitum, quod agitur, inuenta sunt, etiam fit, scribal fair copy, collegii conimbricensis, certissimum est

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Loeb Classical Library, Diogenes Laertius, Francis Bacon, Inter Prxrogatiuas Instantiarum, Plan of the Work, Lesser Congregation, Congregationis Minoris, Idols of the Cave, Idols of the Tribe, Indicative Instances, Idols of the Theatre, Instantia Crucis, Motus Rotationis, Naturalis Philosophia, Clandestine Instances, Frontier Instances, Greater Congregation, Harry Ransom, Idols of the Market, Instances of Companionship, Instances of the Lamp, Instances of Wrestling, Refluxus Maris, Solitary Instances, Cambridge University Press

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This book cites 22 books:

Francis Bacon by Lawrence Gowing on 4 pages
Francis Bacon (World of Art) by John Russell on 4 pages
Francis Bacon (Princeton Paperbacks) by Perez Zagorin on page 549, page 560, and Back Matter
Novum Organum (Spanish Edition) by Francis Bacon in Front Matter, page 499, and page 500
The New Atlantis and The City of the Sun: Two Classic Utopias by Francis Bacon in Table of Contents, Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)

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A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science by Noretta Koertge on page 226
Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature by Jessica Wolfe in Back Matter
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A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) by Steven Nadler on page 307

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