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Selected Philosophical Works

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Description for Selected Philosophical Works Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554.

The most comprehensive collection available in paperback of Bacon’s philosophical and scientific writings, this volume offers Bacon's major works in their entirety, or in substantive selections, revised from the classic 19th century editions of Spedding, Ellis, and Heath. Selections from some of Bacon's natural histories round out this edition by showing the types of compilations that he believed would most contribute to the third part of his Great Instauration.

Each work has a separate brief introduction indicating the major themes developed. In her general Introduction, Sargent gives a biographical sketch of Bacon's early life, education, and legal career, discusses the major ... Read more

A bibliography and index complete the text.

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Product Details

Publication date
1999
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9780872204713
SKU
V9780872204713
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99-2

About Bacon
Rose-Mary Sargent is Professor of Philosophy, Merrimack College.

Reviews for Selected Philosophical Works
It is a great service to teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate level to have such a fine collection of Bacon's texts available with an introduction by Rose-Mary Sargent. This is the kind of essential Bacon we need for teaching purposes. I was particularly pleased to see the Natural Histories and New Atlantis included.
Phillip R. Sloan, University of ... Read more

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