The Moral and Historical Works of Francis Bacon (1874)

S$130.00

The Moral and Historical Works of Francis Bacon (1874)

S$130.00

Title: The Moral and Historical Works of Francis Bacon, including his Essays, Apophtegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh
Author: Francis Bacon, Joseph Devey
Publisher: George Bell & Sons, London, 1874.
Condition: Full leather, with raised bands to spine, marbled edges, and marbled endpapers. Good. Some minor rubbing, scratching and soiling to cover, with a patch of water damage to the back cover. Prize plate to endpaper. Some foxing to prelims. Pages clean, binding very tight and sound. 504pp., app 7″x5″.

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About Francis Bacon:

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount Saint Alban, (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author. He famously died of pneumonia contracted while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method and pioneer in the scientific revolution.

Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. His works established and popularized inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method or simply, the scientific method. His demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things natural marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, much of which still surrounds conceptions of proper methodology today. His dedication probably led to his death, bringing him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments.

Bacon was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and Viscount St Alban in 1621; as he died without heirs both peerages became extinct upon his death.