Francisci de Verulamio, Summi Angli cancellarii, Instauratio magna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.

Contributor:

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Novum organum

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Science--Methodology.

Science.

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 360, that is, 352, 36 pages, 2 unnumbered pages; 34 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Instauratio magna.

Place of Publication:

Londini : Apud Ionannem Billium ..., 1620.

Notes:

Engraved t.p.; decorated borders and initials throughout text.

Numbers 173-180 (second count) omitted on pagination; p. 7 (third count) misnumbered 6.

Signatures: pi² [par.]⁴ A-C⁶ D-Ss⁴ Tt⁶ a-e⁴.

Pages 23-23 (third count; leaf c4, blank?) wanting.

Leaf e3 cancelled and its contents reprinted, with errata added, on recto of e4.

"Distributio operis. Eius constituuntur partes sex. Prima; Partitiones scientiarum. Secunda; Nouum organum siue Indicia de interpretatione natur. Tertia; Phnomena vniuersi, siue Historia naturalis & experimentalis ad condendam philosophiam. Quarta; Scala intellectus. Quinta; Prodromi, siue Anticipationes philosophi secund. Sexta; Philosophia secunda, siue Scientia actiua.": p. 15 of 2nd group. Of the six parts, this edition contains only the 2nd (the Novum Organum), followed by a sketch of the 3rd part, which the author calls Parasceue, ad historiam naturalem, et experimentalem, and a Catalogus historiarum particularium, secundum capita. Works which represent the 1st and 3rd part were published later; of the 4th and 5th parts, only prefaces were written.

Errata on p. [1] (fourth count).

Local Notes:

Personal copy of Edward Herbert, Lord Cherbury, with notations in his hand on front and rear fly-leaves.

Cited in:

ESTC S122428

STC (2nd ed.) 1163

Gibson, R.W. Francis Bacon 103b.

Related Work:

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Instauratio magna.

OCLC:

3081783