The Advancement of LearningRandom House Publishing Group, 01.08.2012 - 254 Seiten Francis Bacon, lawyer, statesman, and philosopher, remains one of the most effectual thinkers in European intellectual history. We can trace his influence from Kant in the 1700s to Darwin a century later. The Advancement of Learning, first published in 1605, contains an unprecedented and thorough systematization of the whole range of human knowledge. Bacon’s argument that the sciences should move away from divine philosophy and embrace empirical observation would forever change the way philosophers and natural scientists interpret their world. |
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... authors had inferred from the struc- ture but had not yet proven : " It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing mechanism we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material . " In ...
... authors had inferred from the struc- ture but had not yet proven : " It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing mechanism we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material . " In ...
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... author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie . But further , it is an assured truth , and a conclusion of experience , that a little or superficial knowl- edge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism , but a further ...
... author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie . But further , it is an assured truth , and a conclusion of experience , that a little or superficial knowl- edge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism , but a further ...
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... , Persia , Grecia , and Rome , the same times that are most renowned for arms , are likewise most admired for learning ; so that the greatest authors and philosophers and the greatest captains and gover- nors The Advancement of Learning 11.
... , Persia , Grecia , and Rome , the same times that are most renowned for arms , are likewise most admired for learning ; so that the greatest authors and philosophers and the greatest captains and gover- nors The Advancement of Learning 11.
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Francis Bacon. authors and philosophers and the greatest captains and gover- nors have lived in the same ages . Neither can it otherwise be : for as in man the ripeness of strength of the body and mind cometh much about an age , save ...
Francis Bacon. authors and philosophers and the greatest captains and gover- nors have lived in the same ages . Neither can it otherwise be : for as in man the ripeness of strength of the body and mind cometh much about an age , save ...
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