The Advancement Of Learning And New Atlantis
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear.
Two of Francis Bacon's most enduring works, The Advancement of Learning and New Atlantis, stand as twin monuments to the dawn of modern scientific thought. In The Advancement of Learning (1605), Bacon constructs a sweeping defence of knowledge and empirical inquiry, arguing passionately against the intellectual stagnation of his age and charting a bold new map of human understanding. New Atlantis, his visionary utopian fragment, presents Bensalem — a fictional island society governed by a magnificent institution of scientific research — illustrating Bacon's conviction that organised inquiry into nature is the surest path to human prosperity and power. Together, these works reveal Bacon not merely as a philosopher but as the architect of the scientific revolution's intellectual foundations, a man who dared to imagine a world remade by reason and experiment. His prose is measured and authoritative, yet charged with an unmistakable visionary urgency that continues to resonate four centuries later. Scholars of philosophy, the history of science, and Renaissance literature return to these texts repeatedly, finding in them the seeds of everything from the Royal Society to modern research universities. For any reader who has ever wondered how the modern mind came to be, Bacon's answers remain startlingly, provocatively alive.
Author: Francis Bacon
Format: Hardback
Genre: Philosophy
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear.
Two of Francis Bacon's most enduring works, The Advancement of Learning and New Atlantis, stand as twin monuments to the dawn of modern scientific thought. In The Advancement of Learning (1605), Bacon constructs a sweeping defence of knowledge and empirical inquiry, arguing passionately against the intellectual stagnation of his age and charting a bold new map of human understanding. New Atlantis, his visionary utopian fragment, presents Bensalem — a fictional island society governed by a magnificent institution of scientific research — illustrating Bacon's conviction that organised inquiry into nature is the surest path to human prosperity and power. Together, these works reveal Bacon not merely as a philosopher but as the architect of the scientific revolution's intellectual foundations, a man who dared to imagine a world remade by reason and experiment. His prose is measured and authoritative, yet charged with an unmistakable visionary urgency that continues to resonate four centuries later. Scholars of philosophy, the history of science, and Renaissance literature return to these texts repeatedly, finding in them the seeds of everything from the Royal Society to modern research universities. For any reader who has ever wondered how the modern mind came to be, Bacon's answers remain startlingly, provocatively alive.