The Works of Francis Bacon

by Bacon, Francis; Spedding, James; Ellis, Robert Leslie; Heath, Douglas Denon

• ISBN13: 9781108040693
• ISBN10: 1108040691
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-24
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), the English philosopher, statesman and jurist, is best known for developing the empiricist method which forms the basis of modern science. Bacon's writings concentrated on philosophy and judicial reform. His most significant work is the Instauratio Magna comprising two parts - The Advancement of Learning and the Novum Organum. The first part is noteworthy as the first major philosophical work published in English (1605). James Spedding (1808-81) and his co-editors arranged this fourteen-volume edition, published in London between 1857 and 1874, not in chronological order but by subject matter, so that different volumes would appeal to different audiences. The material is divided into three parts: philosophy and general literature; legal works; and letters, speeches and tracts relating to politics. Volume 5, published in 1858, contains the English translations of the remainder of the Instauratio Magna and his other philosophical writings.

Table of Contents

Preface

Literary Works: History of the Reign of King Henry VII

The Beginning of the History of the Reign of King Henry VIII

The Beginning of the History of Great Britain

In Felicem Memoriam Elizabethiae, Angliae Reginae

In Henricum Principem Walliae Elogium

Imago Civilis Julii Caesaris

Imago Civilis Augusti Caesaris

Additions and corrections inserted by Bacon in a manuscript copy of Camden's Annales

Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral

Appendix to the Essays

De Sapientia Veterum

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