The Instauratio Magna: Part III: Historia Naturalis et Experimentalis: Historia Ventorum and Historia Vitae & Mortis- The Oxford Francis Bacon, Volume XII
by: Francis

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 502 pages including index. Lacks dust jacket. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was a genuine midwife of modernity. He was one of the first thinkers to visualize a future that would be guided by a cooperative science-based vision of bettering human welfare. In this the first critical edition of his greatest philosophical work since the nineteenth-century, we find facing-page Latin translations and a thorough and detailed Introduction to the text. Name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.