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Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], Ex officinâ Ioannis Maire, 1637, Third Edition. Hard Cover, 476, [52] p. ; p. 11 cm. (12mo). Very Good/No Jacket.¶ Woodcut printer's device on title. Bacon in retirement from public office began to experiment, and hatched a plan for the development of a 'scientific method' for bringing knowledge together into an organic whole. His insistence on making science experimental and factual, rather than speculative and philosophical, had enormous consequences for the modern world. This work, first published in 1623, was part of his plan for a collection of empirical data as an encyclopedic natural history of facts. "..it dealt with a topic close to Bacon's heart - the prolongation of life -an objective which he took to be one of the highest that his new, operative science could attain to, and an objective that, if achieved, would mark a partial recovery of what mankind had lost with the Fall. Thus, an elaborate collection of data on factors governing durability in things animate and inanimate, and mortality in living ones..the proto-statistical Historia Vitae had a powerful effect on the character of seventeenth-century 'natural-historical' Baconianism.." Dict. 17th c. Brit. Philos. It is one of only four works he completed as part of 'Great Instauration,' the 'Phænomena Universi,' which was meant to include of worked over materials where the method of induction was used. " This 3rd edition is OCLC 4 Locs. [HUV, DLC, HHG, DRB], 2 in Europe [LKG, EQO]. See Lowndes, 91; Caillet I, 612 [Fr. Trans.] Gibson, R. Bacon,; 149. Orig. calf Bds. old calf back, Mro. label, gilt, date at foot of spine in gilt, VG.

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