Author: Markku Peltonen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-04-26
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780521435345
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There are also essays on Bacon's theory of rhetoric and history as well as on his moral and political philosophy and on his legacy. Throughout the contributors aim to place Bacon in his historical context.
Author: Francis 1561-1626 Bacon
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2016-08-27
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9781363693412
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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: 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.