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The New Atlantis
The New Atlantis – Sir Francis Bacon The ‚New Atlantis‘, first published in 1627, but probably written between 1622 and 1624, is a fragmentary sketch of an ideal commonwealth, and in particular of an ideal „palace of invention“ called „Solomon’s House,“—a great establishment of scientific research such as Bacon longed to see founded. The book, […]
Essays
Essays – Sir Francis Bacon Of Bacon’s literary, as distinct from his philosophical and professional, works, far the most popular and important are the ‚Essays.‘ But it may not be superfluous to remark that the ‚Essays‘ are the most original of all Bacon’s works, those which, in detail, he seems to have thought out most […]
Novum Organum
Novum Organum – Sir Francis Bacon The ‚Novum Organum,‘ in the shape in which its author left it, is only a fragment of the larger work which Bacon contemplated under that title, as adequately representing the second part of the ‚Great Instauration.‘ Nevertheless, though only a fragment, the ‚Novum Organum,‘ and especially the first book, […]
The Advancement of Learning
The Advancement of Learning – Sir Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning is a splendid attempt to defend and magnify the pursuit of learning and then to survey the existing state of human knowledge. Part of the argument of the first part has lost its cogency, or even its relevancy, today. But in breadth of […]