| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 249 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. nature of Bacon's project -- From arcane learning to public knowledge -- via media -- Practical knowledge -- classification of knowledge -- Mathematics and practical learning -- Eclecticism -- 2. Humanist models for scientia -- education in rhetoric -- office of the philosopher -- reform of law -- 3. legitimation of natural philosophy -- Zealotry and the well-ordered state -- religious vindication of natural philosophy -- political vindication of natural philosophy -- disciplinary vindication of natural philosophy -- utilitarian vindication of natural philosophy -- 4. shaping of the natural philosopher -- psychology of knowledge -- poverty of antiquity -- interpretation of the past -- External impediments and the historicisation of knowledge -- 'Purging the floor of the mind' -- 5. Method as a way of pursuing natural philosophy -- 'Great Instauration' -- Atomism: method and natural philosophy -- 'A new and certain path' -- method of discovery? -- Prerogative instances -- Productive truth -- institutional setting -- 6. Dominion over nature -- Matter theory and natural philosophy -- sources of Bacon's matter theory -- Atomism and motion -- Democritus and Cupid -- theory of the cosmos -- Spiritus and the preservation of life |
| Summary |
This ambitious and important book provides the first truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. It explores in detail how and why Bacon attempted to transform the largely esoteric discipline of natural philosophy into a public practice through a program in which practical science provided a model that inspired many from the 17th to the 20th centuries. This book will be recognized as a major contribution to Baconian scholarship of special interest to historians of early modern philosophy, science, and ideas |
| Analysis |
Electronic books |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-241) and index |
| Notes |
English |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 -- Philosophy
|
| SUBJECT |
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 fast |
|
Bacon, Francis. swd |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Modern -- History
|
|
Philosophy.
|
|
Philosophy, Renaissance.
|
|
Philosophy -- history
|
|
Philosophy
|
|
philosophy.
|
|
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
|
|
Philosophy, Renaissance
|
|
Philosophy
|
|
Philosophy, Modern
|
|
Philosophie
|
|
Filosofie.
|
|
Vernieuwing.
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
0511017782 |
|
9780511017780 |
|
051103234X |
|
9780511032349 |
|
9780521801546 |
|
0521801540 |
|
9780521805360 |
|
0521805368 |
|
9780511612688 |
|
0511612680 |
|
1107122740 |
|
9781107122741 |
|
1280430400 |
|
9781280430404 |
|
0511047614 |
|
9780511047619 |
|
0511173814 |
|
9780511173813 |
|
0511302215 |
|
9780511302213 |
|
