The Works of Francis Bacon Bacon Spedding Ellis Heath Paperback Volume 14

The Works of Francis BaconAuthor(s): Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108040778, 978-1108040778\nSynopsis\nFrancis Bacon [tel], the English philosopher, statesman and jurist, is best known for developing the empiricist method which forms the basis of modern science. Bacon's writings concentrated on philosophy and judicial reform. His most significant work is the Instauratio Magna comprising two parts - The Advancement of Learning and the Novum Organum. The first part is noteworthy as the first major philosophical work published in English [tel]. James Spedding [tel] and his co-editors arranged this fourteen-volume edition, published in London between 1857 and 1874, not in chronological order but by subject matter, so that different volumes would appeal to different audiences. The material is divided into three parts: philo.