Selected Philosophical Works

by Bacon, Francis; Sargent, Rose-Mary

• ISBN13: 9780872204706
• ISBN10: 0872204707
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781603845762
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Summary

The most comprehensive collection available of Bacon's philosophical and scientific writings, this volume offers Bacon's major works in their entirety, or in generous selections, revised from the classic 19th century editions of Spedding, Ellis and Heath. Selections from Bacon's natural histories round out this edition by showing the types of compilations that he believed would most contribute to the third part of his Great Instauration. In her General Introduction, Rose-Mary Sargent sketches Bacon's early life, education, and legal career, and discusses the major components of his philosophical works, and traces his influence on subsequent natural philosophy.

Table of Contents

General Introduction	vi
Note on the Text	xxxvii
Advancement of Learning and Division of the Sciences	1	(62)
Advancement of Learning, Book One	4	(45)
Advancement of Learning, Book Two, Dedication	49	(7)
De Augmentis, Summary of Books Two through Nine	56	(7)
Great Instauration, New Organon, and Preparative	63	(144)
The Great Instauration	66	(20)
The New Organon, Preface	86	(3)
The New Organon, Book One	89	(59)
The New Organon, Book Two	148	(42)
Preparative	190	(17)
Natural History Selections	207	(32)
Natural Experimental History	210	(6)
History of Dense and Rare	216	(9)
Sylva Sylvarum	225	(8)
Medical Remains	233	(6)
New Atlantis	239	(30)
New Atlantis	241	(28)
Selected Bibliography	269	(9)
Index	278