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The Advancement of Learning — Francis Bacon

The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 197 pages

The Advancement of Learning is Francis Bacon's treatise on the state of knowledge and its potential for progress. Written in 1605, it surveys the sciences and learning of his time and argues for a new, empirical approach to inquiry. Listeners interested in the history of ideas will find it a foundational text in the development of modern science.

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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).

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Transcribed from the 1893 Cassell & Company edition by David Price, email [email protected]

Transcriber’s note: Changed “considering that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditious, and changes” to “considering that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes”.

CASSELL’S NATIONAL LIBRARY.

THE

Advancement

OF

Learning.

BY

FRANCIS BACON.

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CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited:

LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE.

1893.

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Contents

  1. THE Advancement OF Learning.
  2. INTRODUCTION.
  3. THE FIRST BOOK OF FRANCIS BACON; OF THE PROFICIENCE AND ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING, DIVINE AND HUMAN.
  4. THE SECOND BOOK.
  5. FOOTNOTES.
  6. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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