Francis Bacon: 94 books

Contents: 1. Prefaces and Epilogues, by William Caxton 2. Dedication Of The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, by John Calvin 3. Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, by Nicolaus Copernicus 4. Preface to The History of the Reformation In Scotland, by John Knox 5. Prefatory Letter...

This massive anthology of philosophy contains over 75 works by a dozen of the most known philosophers of all time. An active table of contents makes it easy to quickly to the work you want.Authors and books include:Aeschylus:AgamemnonBound and Seven Against ThebesThe House of AtreusMaidens and Other...

In 1623 Sir Francis Bacon expressed his aspirations and ideals in The New Atlantis. Released in 1627, this utopian novel was his creation of an ideal land where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendor, piety and public spirit" were the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of Bensalem....

Francis Bacon’s landmark writings on subjects ranging from anger and ambition, marriage and money, to envy and empire established him as the founding father of modern scientific thinking, with his rejection of superstition and his emphasis on proof and experiment, rational enquiry and reasoned argument. Writings...

An apophthegm is a concise , truthful saying; a maxim, or aphorism. The following is an expansive collection of apophthegms by Francis Bacon, the famous English philosopher and scientist.

Atlantis has been the source of legends that have fascinated readers from, at least, the time of Plato to almost modern times.  This work contains the complete text of the most interesting of these stories: The New Atlantis, by Sir Francis Bacon Brendan’s Fabulous Voyage, by John, Third Marquess...

Can we live better? 7 classic utopias is a collection of the most famous classical works on the topic of an ideal society.For thousands of years human beings have dreamt of perfect worlds, worlds free of conflict, hunger and unhappiness. But can these worlds ever exist in reality?Many thinkers and...

This collection includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents Boswell's Life of Johnson by James Boswell (1791) 887 The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by John Gibson Lockhart (1906) Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1853) Essays of Francis Bacon or Counsels, Civil...

Ideas que han cambiado el mundo A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado....

La Nueva Atlántida (The New Atlantis en el original inglés) es una novela utópica escrita por Francis Bacon en 1626. Describe una tierra mítica, Bensalem, a la que él viaja. Narra la descripción que hace uno de sus hombres sabios del método que utiliza...

Bacon published this interesting little work in 1609. It contains thirty-one fables abounding with a union of deep thought and poetic beauty. In most fables he explains the common but erroneous supposition that knowledge and the conformity of the will, knowing and acting, are convertible terms.

"The New Organon" (defined as the New Tool) aims to offer a new method of investigating nature, called the Interpretation of Nature. A better use of the mind and the understanding is needed to investigate nature. Bacon suggests an entirely new system of logic, which is based on induction...

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