The Oxford Francis Bacon - The Instauratio Magna Part II: Novum Organum and Associated Texts

Zusatztext 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was a genuine midwife of modernity. He was one of the first thinkers to visualise a future which 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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• Authors: Francis Bacon, Graham Rees, Graham (EDT)/ Wakely Rees
• Assisted by: Graham Rees (Editor), The late Graham (Research Professor Rees (Editor), Rees Graham (Editor), Maria Wakely (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.03.2004
• EAN: 9780199247929
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924792-9
• No. of pages: 766
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 225 mm x 45 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; The Oxford Francis Bacon; Print on Demand; The Oxford Francis Bacon
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