The Advancement of LearningPaul Dry Books, 1. mars 2001 - 263 sider Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning (1605) is considered the first major philosophical book written in English. In it, Bacon is concerned with scientific learning: the current state of knowledge, obstacles to its progress, and his own plans for revitalization of schools and universities. Here Bacon sets forth the first account of science as intended for "the relief of man's estate." |
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... 'd the father of modern experimental philosophy . " According to this view , Bacon freed the human intellect from its enthrallment to ancient thought and the sterile legacy of that thought , VII Introduction JERRY WEINBERGER.
Francis Bacon. ancient thought and the sterile legacy of that thought , medieval scholas- ticism . Bacon redirected men from idle and fruitless speculation to the active and empirical investigation of nature , and he showed how real ...
... ancient Greek philosophers who , being pagans , believed the entire natural world to be a divine image of God . The mistake should have disappeared with the advent of Christianity , however , which teaches that only humanity exists as ...
... Ancient . 73 Modern . 74 Lives . 75 Narrations . 76 Annals . 76 Cosmography . 77 Ecclesiastical . 78 Of the Church . Of Prophecy . Of Providence . Literary , or appendices to History . 79 POESY . ( Herein is no deficiency . ) 80 ...
... ancient Hermes ; the power and fortune of a king , the knowledge and illumination of a priest , and the learning and univer- sality of a philosopher.5 This propriety inherent and individual attri- bute in your Majesty deserveth to be ...