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      • Volume 3: Philosophical Works 3
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2013
      November 2011
      ISBN:
      9781139149563
      9781108040662
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139149563
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      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.06kg, 850 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy
      Subjects:
      Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy of Science, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy
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    Series:
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    Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy of Science, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy
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    Francis Bacon (1561–1626), the English philosopher, statesman and jurist, is best known for developing the empiricist method which forms the basis of modern science. Bacon's writings concentrated on philosophy and judicial reform. His most significant work is the Instauratio Magna comprising two parts - The Advancement of Learning and the Novum Organum. The first part is noteworthy as the first major philosophical work published in English (1605). James Spedding (1808–81) and his co-editors arranged this fourteen-volume edition, published in London between 1857 and 1874, not in chronological order but by subject matter, so that different volumes would appeal to different audiences. The material is divided into three parts: philosophy and general literature; legal works; and letters, speeches and tracts relating to politics. Volume 3, published in 1857, contains Bacon's philosophical works in Latin that either were not intended to be part of the Instauratio Magna or were abandoned.

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