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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... give mankind mastery over the forces of nature by means of scientific discoveries and inventions.” Bacon's inquiries explored virtually every field of knowledge, as he had promised they would. One of the great judicial scholars of the ...
... give mankind mastery over the forces of nature by means of scientific discoveries and inventions.” Bacon's inquiries explored virtually every field of knowledge, as he had promised they would. One of the great judicial scholars of the ...
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... give you, in this series, a set of the most readable and influential books in the history of public understanding of science, all written by primary doers, not just secondary interpreters, of this great enterprise. The last line of the ...
... give you, in this series, a set of the most readable and influential books in the history of public understanding of science, all written by primary doers, not just secondary interpreters, of this great enterprise. The last line of the ...
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... gives a censure, “That there is no end of making books, and that much reading is weariness of the flesh”; and again ... give law unto himself, and to depend no more upon God's commandments, which was the form of the temptation. Neither ...
... gives a censure, “That there is no end of making books, and that much reading is weariness of the flesh”; and again ... give law unto himself, and to depend no more upon God's commandments, which was the form of the temptation. Neither ...
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... give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distaste or repining; the third, That we do not presume by the contemplation of nature to attain to the mysteries of God. For as touching the first of these, Salomon doth excellently ...
... give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distaste or repining; the third, That we do not presume by the contemplation of nature to attain to the mysteries of God. For as touching the first of these, Salomon doth excellently ...
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... in embassage to Rome, and that the young men of Rome began to flock about him, being allured with the sweetness and majesty of his eloquence and learning, gave counsel in open senate that they should give 10 : Francis Bacon.
... in embassage to Rome, and that the young men of Rome began to flock about him, being allured with the sweetness and majesty of his eloquence and learning, gave counsel in open senate that they should give 10 : Francis Bacon.
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