Francis BaconPrinceton University Press, 10 nov 2020 - 80 pagina's Francis Bacon (1561-1626), commonly regarded as one of the founders of the Scientific Revolution, exerted a powerful influence on the intellectual development of the modern world. He also led a remarkably varied and dramatic life as a philosopher, writer, lawyer, courtier, and statesman. Although there has been much recent scholarship on individual aspects of Bacon's career, Perez Zagorin's is the first work in many years to present a comprehensive account of the entire sweep of his thought and its enduring influence. Combining keen scholarly and psychological insights, Zagorin reveals Bacon as a man of genius, deep paradoxes, and pronounced flaws. |
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... things in its flow while things weighty and solid sink to the bottom and are lost . He criticized the veneration of past time and antiquity , arguing that the moderns have exceeded the past in their knowledge and observations of the ...
... things for which I was least fit , so as I may truly say , my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage . " Despite such expressions of regret , Bacon was irresistibly attracted to politics and would never willingly ...
... things for him , acting more and more in the capacity of an adviser , and tying his own longdeferred hopes of political advancement to the earl's fortunes . As he wrote in his essay “ Of Faction , ” “ mean men in their rising must ...
... things , how little soever you may understand either the ground or the circumstances of their proceedings , " and further protested that she abandoned her mind “ continually to most strange and wrongfull suspicions .... In attempting to ...
... things he loved much better than he loved the nobleman , such as the queen's service , honor , favor , and the good of his country . 49 Subsequently , when Essex was put on trial for treason , 50 Bacon played an important role in his ...
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The Great Instauration | 74 |
Morals and Politics | 129 |
Language Law and History | 175 |
Conclusion | 221 |
INDEX | 281 |