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Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561 1626

Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561 1626

Wormald, B. H. G.

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PhilosophyGeneral Political SciencePaleontology

ISBN10: 0521031451
ISBN13: 9780521031455
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 23 2006
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Brian Wormald provides a fundamental reappraisal of one of the most complex and innovative figures of the late-Elizabethan and Jacobean age. In the centuries since his death, Francis Bacon (1561-1626) has been perceived and studied as a promoter and prophet of the philosophy of science--natural science--but he saw himself also as a clarifier and promoter of what he called policy or the study and improvement of the structure and function of civil states. Mr. Wormald shows that Bacon was concerned equally with the knowledge of the world of nature and with that of policy. The junction between the two enterprises was effected by his work in history; and in the end it was Bacon's conception and practice of history that provided the answer to his efforts to advance policy and natural philosophy.

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