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The Instauratio Magna: Last Writings
Contributor(s): Bacon, Francis (Author), Rees, Graham (Editor), Rees, Graham (Translator)

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 ISBN: 0198184700     ISBN-13: 9780198184706
Publisher: Clarendon Press
OUR PRICE: $479.75  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: August 2000
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Annotation: This volume belongs to the first new critical edition of the works of Francis Bacon (1561-1626) to have been produced since the nineteenth century. The edition presents the works in broadly chronological order and according to the best principles of modern textual scholarship. The seven works
in the present volume belong to the final completed stages (Parts III-V) of Bacon's hugely ambitious six-part sequence of philosophical works, collectively entitled Instauratio magna (1620-6). All are presented in the original Latin with new facing-page translations. Three of the seven texts
(substantial works in two cases, and all sharing a startlingly improbable textual history) are published and translated here for the first time: these are an early version of the Historia densi, the 'lost' Abecedarium, and the Historia de animato & inanimato. Another--the Prodromi sive
anticipationes philosphiae secundae--has likewise never been translated before. Together with their commentaries and the introduction they open the way to important new understandings of Bacon's mature philosophical thought.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Science
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Philosophy | Movements - Humanism
Dewey: 192
LCCN: 00033977
Physical Information: 1.19" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (1.61 lbs) 460 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
This volume belongs to the first new critical edition of the works of Francis Bacon (1561-1626) to have been produced since the nineteenth century. The edition presents the works in broadly chronological order and according to the best principles of modern textual scholarship. The seven works
in the present volume belong to the final completed stages (Parts III-V) of Bacon's hugely ambitious six-part sequence of philosophical works, collectively entitled Instauratio magna (1620-6). All are presented in the original Latin with new facing-page translations. Three of the seven texts
(substantial works in two cases, and all sharing a startlingly improbable textual history) are published and translated here for the first time: these are an early version of the Historia densi, the 'lost' Abecedarium, and the Historia de animato & inanimato. Another--the Prodromi sive
anticipationes philosphiae secundae--has likewise never been translated before. Together with their commentaries and the introduction they open the way to important new understandings of Bacon's mature philosophical thought.
 
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