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The Instauratio magna. Part 3, Historia naturalis et experimentalis : Historia ventorum and Historia vitæ & mortis / Francis Bacon ; edited with introduction, notes, commentaries, and facing-page translations by Graham Rees with Maria Wakely.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
- Series:
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. 1996 ; Works. 12.
- The Oxford Francis Bacon ; 12
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Philosophy--Early works to 1800.
- Science.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- lxxxiii, 502 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Historia naturalis et experimentalis
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- Text in English and Latin.
- Summary:
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was a genuine midwife of modernity. He was one of the first thinkers to visualise a future which would be guided by a cooperative science-based vision of bettering human welfare. In this the first critical edition of his greatest philosophical work since thenineteenth-century, we find facing-page Latin translations and a thorough and detailed Introduction to the text.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 490-496) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780199265008
- 0199265003
- OCLC:
- 163313098
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