Search Results: of the advancement and proficiencie of by bacon francis

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London : Printed for Thomas Williams, 1674. Hardcover. Good. 2nd edition. Folio. Bound in later suede leather. Marbled end pages. pp. [32], 38, [14], 322, [18]. Lacking frontispiece portrait. Marginalia. Handwritten piece of Abraham Crowley's Ode to the Royal Society on front end page., "Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren Wilderness he past, Did on the very Border stand Of the blest promis'd Land, And from the Mountains Top of his Exalted Wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it." Refs: Gibson 142; Wing B312; ESTC R19954. <br> Bacon's Advancement of Learning was written in 1605 and contributed to the modern philosophy of science and the development of the scientific method. "Bacon had an immediate and lasting influence upon philosophy and natural science... The impetus to the foundation of the Royal Society came from Bacon's writings; to Voltaire he was 'le pere de la philosophie experimentale'." Printing in the Mind of man,… Read More

London: for Thomas Williams, 1674, 1674. 1 vol., small folio, 11-7/8" x 8", (xvii)322pp(x), complete including the engraved frontis portrait plate of Bacon. Bound in contemporary full speckled calf over cords, rebacked at some earlier date, gilt lettered brown morocco spine label, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, minor damp stain to upper corner of the first 4 leaves otherwise internally clean and bright, a VERY GOOD copy.