{"product_id":"francis-bacon-history-politics-and-science-1561-1626-hardback-9780521307734","title":"Francis Bacon; History, Politics and Science, 1561–1626 (Hardback) 9780521307734","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFrancis Bacon\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHistory, Politics and Science, 1561–1626\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn this book Brian Wormald provides a fundamental reappraisal of Francis Bacon.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBrian Harvey Goodwin Wormald (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521307734, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 March 1993\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e424 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 3.7 cm, 0.721 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...this study represents a fresh look at Francis Bacon.  Its argument possesses strength and persuasiveness based on a close examination of primary sources.  It is a significant contribution.\"    George Ouwendijk, Renaissance Quarterly\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn the centuries since his death, Francis Bacon has been perceived as a promoter and prophet of 'natural science'. Certainly Bacon expected to fill the vacuum which he saw existing in the study of nature; but he also saw himself as a clarifier and promoter of what he called 'policy', that is, the study and improvement of the structure and function of civil states including the then new British state. In this major study, Brian Wormald's first since his work on Clarendon, Bacon is shown resolving this conflict by attending assiduously to both fields, arguing that work on one would help progress in the other. In his teaching, in his practice and in terms of what was actually achieved, the junction between the two enterprises was affected by Bacon's work in history - civil and natural. In this fundamental reappraisal of one of the most complex and innovative figures of the age, Brian Wormald reveals how Bacon's conception and practice of history provided an answer to his strivings in both policy and natural philosophy.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Two programmes: know thyself and know the universe of nature\u003cbr\u003e 3. Knowledges are as pyramids, whereof history is the basis - history civil - this latter extended to describe and to include the Common Law of England\u003cbr\u003e 4. Logic - idols of the mind - rhetoric\u003cbr\u003e 5. Policy: a great part of philosophy - Bacon's engagements of policy\u003cbr\u003e 6. Morality and policy I\u003cbr\u003e 7. Morality and policy II\u003cbr\u003e 8. Morality and policy III\u003cbr\u003e 9. Morality and policy IV\u003cbr\u003e 10. Civil history of letters - civil history mixed\u003cbr\u003e 11. Civil history of the reign of King Henry the 7th\u003cbr\u003e 12. Aims and claims - but no metaphysics of nature\u003cbr\u003e 13. No metaphysics of nature - civil history supplies Bacon's masculine birth of time\u003cbr\u003e 14. Bacon and his markers I\u003cbr\u003e 15. Bacon and his markers II\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007075995928,"sku":"9780521307734","price":104.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521307734i_8ae42fc4-7c85-4388-b9ce-16a459bf6231.jpg?v=1691374993","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/francis-bacon-history-politics-and-science-1561-1626-hardback-9780521307734","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}