| Description |
1 online resource (272 pages) |
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Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity |
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Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Dedication; 1 Introduction; 2 Bacon, Atomism, and Imposture: The True and the Useful in History, Myth, and Theory; 3 The New Science and the Via Negativa: A Mystical Source for Baconian Empiricism; 4 The Feminine Birth of the Mind: Regendering the Empirical Subject in Bacon and His Followers; 5 "The Very Idea!": Francis Bacon, E.O. Wilson on the Rehabilitation of Eidos; 6 Francis Bacon and the Unity of Knowledge: Reason and Revelation |
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7 The Hidden Life of Matter: Techniques for Prolonging of Life in the Writings of Francis Bacon8 "The Purer Foundations": Bacon and Legal Education; 9 A Society of Baconians?: The Collective Development of Bacon's Method in the Royal Society of London; 10 Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, and Historical Thought; 11 "Seated Between the Old World and the New": Geopolitics, Natural Philosophy, and Proficient Method; Select Bibliography; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Solomon, Julie Robin
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Crane, Professor Mary Thomas
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Turner, Professor Henry S
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| ISBN |
9781351935906 |
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1351935909 |
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