Advancement Of Learning (Modern Library PBK); Author: Bacon, Francis; Paperback

Author: Bacon, Francis
Edition #2001 ~ Modern Library Edition; Modern Library Science; Paperback
320 pages
Published: October 2001
Random House USA Inc
ISBN: 0375758461

Sir Francis Bacon, lawyer, statesman, and philosopher, remains one of the most influential thinkers in European intellectual history. We can trace his influence from Kant in the eighteenth century 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 and of the natural world would forever change the way philosophers and natural scientists interpret their world.The Advancement of Learning is out of print; ML will have the only edition available.