Author: Francis Bacon
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2014-09-11
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781502333827
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The TVVOO Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, divine and humane. To the King. At London. Printed for Henrie Tomes, and are to be sould at his shop at Graies Inne Gate in Holborne. 1605." That was the original title-page of the book now in the reader's hand--a living book that led the way to a new world of thought.
Author: Francis Bacon
Publisher: Blurb
Published: 2021-10-28
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781006347481
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Advancement of Learning (full title: Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human) is a 1605 book by Francis Bacon. It inspired the taxonomic structure of the highly influential Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Denis Diderot, and is credited by Bacon's biographer-essayist Catherine Drinker Bowen with being a pioneering essay in support of empirical philosophy. The following passage from The Advancement of Learning was used as the foreword to a popular Cambridge textbook.
Author: Francis Bacon
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-10
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Advancement of Learning" is a 1605 book by Francis Bacon in which Bacon's biographer-essayist Catherine Drinker Bowen is credited with being a pioneering essay supporting empirical philosophy. Here's the most famous quote from the book: "So that as Tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use in respect it maketh a quick eye, and a body ready to put itself in all positions, so, in the Mathematics the use which is collateral, an intervenient, is no less worthy, than that which is principle and intended."