Francis Bacon : history, politics, and science, 1561-1626
In this book Brian Wormald provides a fundamental reappraisal of one of the most innovative figures of the age. Though dedicated to his work on both 'natural science' and 'policy' Bacon's conception and practice of history is here revealed as central to his understanding of both.
Print Book, English, 1993
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1993
409 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780521307734, 0521307732
22597250
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Two programmes
3. Knowledges are as pyramids
4. Logic
5. Policy: a great part of philosophy
6. Morality and policy I
7. Morality and policy II
8. Morality and policy III
9. Morality and policy IV
10. Civil history of letters
11. Civil history of the reign of King Henry the 7th
12. Aims and claims
13. No metaphysics of nature
14. Bacon and his markers I
15. Bacon and his markers II
Notes
Index