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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... appearing sometimes in the zeal and jealousy of Divines ; sometimes in the severity and arrogancy of Politiques ; and ... appear these men do not observe or consider that it was not the pure knowledge of nature and universality , a ...
... appear in that we see men are more curious what they put into a new vessel than into a vessel seasoned; and what mould they lay about a young plant than about a plant corroborate; so as the weakest terms and times of all things use to ...
... appear to be of a diverse nature , the one seeming to proceed of cun- ning and the other of simplicity , yet certainly they do for the most part concur : for , as the verse noteth , Percontatorem fugito , nam garrulus idem est : 78 an ...
... appear in the writings of Plinius, Cardanus,80 Albertus,81 and divers of the Arabians, being fraught with much fabulous matter, a great part not only untried, but notoriously untrue, to the great derogation of the credit of natural ...
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