- Early works to 1800, Heat, Induction (Logic), Logic
"When The New Organon appeared in 1620, as part of a six-part programme of scientific inquiry entitled 'The Great Renewal of Learning', Francis Bacon was at the high point of his political career, and his ambitious work was groundbreaking in its attempt to give formal philosophical shape to a new and rapidly emerging experimentally based science.
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- Author
- Francis Bacon
- First published
- 1620
- Pages
- 360
- Publisher
- Clarendon press, Apud Adrianum Wijngaerde et Franciscum Moiardum, ex officina Adriani Wyngarden
- Editions
- 52
- Language
- lat, Chinese, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9788441318564
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“Believing that the human understanding creates difficulties for itself, and does not put to sober and sensible use the true means of help that are in man's power; from which manifold ignorance of things has come, and from that ignorance numberless ills; he thought that every effort should be made, by whatever means, to restore to its original condition, or at least to improve, that commerce between Mind and Things (to which almost nothing on earth, or at least nothing that is of the earth, can compare).”
An English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author known as the father of Empiricism.
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