BACON, FRANCIS (WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HENRY MORLEY)

The Essays Counsels CIVIL and Moral of Francis Bacon Including Also His Apophthegms, Elegant Sentences and Wisdom of the Ancients

New York, NY: Home Book Company, 2018. Reprint. Hardcover. This is a small format book (approx. 6" x 4") . The book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There are several tiny spots of discoloration to the spine of the book covers. There is a previous owner's inked name and date on the front endpaper, along with an ink stamped previous owner's library stamp and book number. There is a second previous owner's library stamp on the front pastedown page. The text pages are clean and bright, with the exception of some pages having a previous owner's hand-drawn pointed finger at a particular sentence or paragraph. "Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. He argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature. He believed that science could be achieved by the use of a sceptical and methodical approach whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading themselves. Although his most specific proposals about such a method, the Baconian method, did not have long-lasting influence, the general idea of the importance and possibility of a sceptical methodology makes Bacon one of the later founders of the scientific method. His portion of the method based in scepticism was a new rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, whose practical details are still central to debates on science and methodology. He is famous for his role in the scientific revolution, promoting scientific experimentation as a way of glorifying God and fulfilling scripture. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

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Book number: 48172

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: English Literature Francis Bacon Henry Morley Poetry Ancient Wisdom