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"Presents close analysis of eight of Francis Bacon's texts in order to investigate the relation of his religious views to his instauration. Attempts to correct the persistent misconception of Bacon as a secular modern who dismissed religion in order to promote the human advancement of knowledge"--Provided by publisher.

Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Bacon, Francis, --- Bacon de Verulam, François --- Bacon, François --- Religion.

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This ambitious and important book, first published in 2001, provides a truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. It describes how Bacon transformed the values that had underpinned philosophical culture since antiquity by rejecting the traditional idea of a philosopher as someone engaged in contemplation of the cosmos. The book explores in detail how and why Bacon attempted to transform the largely esoteric discipline of natural philosophy into a public practice through a program in which practical science provided a model that inspired many from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Stephen Gaukroger shows that this reform of natural philosophy was dependent on the creation of a new philosophical persona: a natural philosopher shaped through submission to the dictates of Baconian method. This book will be recognized as a major contribution to Baconian scholarship, of special interest to historians of early-modern philosophy, science, and ideas.

Bacon, Francis --- Bacon, Francis. --- Philosophy, Modern. --- Philosophy, Modern --- Philosophy & Religion --- Philosophy --- Bacon, Francis, --- Philosophy. --- History. --- Bacon de Verulam, François --- Bacon, François --- Modern philosophy --- Arts and Humanities

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This book challenges the accepted view of the early Royal Society of London that holds that its fellows did not seriously attempt to implement Francis Bacon’s program for the methodological reform of the sciences. Instead, the book shows that Bacon’s program shaped the Society’s earliest work in important, if often contradictory, ways as fellows wedded Bacon’s ideas to their various interests and problem areas. Developing Bacon’s program in different directions resulted in a richer understanding of his method than the undirected empiricism often associated with his name. The author demonstrates that Bacon’s call for a focus on “things themselves” was built upon three distinct images of objects of knowledge, in opposition to recent accounts that focus on the collective witnessing of matters of fact. He identifies at the core of Bacon’s method a threefold metaphorical ontology of objects of knowledge and corresponding objectivities. The book reveals a picture of the Royal Society as more sophisticated and unified than previously depicted, while simultaneously demonstrating how the fellows’ development of Bacon’s legacy ultimately pulled in different directions. Specular objects of knowledge privileged passive observation and justified an empiricist objectivity. Manipulated objects of art or manual objects emphasized an engaged, constructivist objectivity in which knowing is doing. And, a vision of underlying forms as generative objects of knowledge, which could be combined like letters of the alphabet to produce phenomena at will, defined a theoretical concept of objectivity. These components of Bacon’s method inform in varying ways the early publications of the Royal Society by John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, John Wilkins, Thomas Sprat, and John Graunt, which are examined in detail to demonstrate the collective negotiation of an ambitious inductive program employing hypotheses, active powers, and the disciplined use of analogy. Examining the Royal Society’s activity in the areas of horticulture, experimentation, language reform, cultural criticism, and political arithmetic, the author synthesizes philosophical and sociological approaches to science in developing a new understanding of the Royal Society and its legacy for science, culture, and politics.

Science --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Methodology --- History --- Bacon, Francis, --- Bacon de Verulam, François --- Bacon, François --- Royal Society (Great Britain) --- Royal society --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life

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Rhetoric and the Familiar examines the rhetorical practice of Francis Bacon and John Donne in both their writing and public speaking. It explores how their rhetorical planning negotiates the need both to use and combat familiar ideas, images, and emotions, when engaging different audiences. The book's main selling points are that it explores well-known texts from the neglected angle of faculty psychology. Its ability to illuminate familiar ground in an important but neglected way will be its main selling point in the academic market.

English language --- Rhetoric. --- Bacon, Francis, --- Donne, John, --- Donn, John, --- Done, John, --- Donn, Dzhon, --- Dann, Dzhon, --- Донн, Джон, --- Bacon de Verulam, François --- Bacon, François --- Literary style. --- Knowledge --- Psychology. --- Germanic languages

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This book is a study of the scientific revolution as a movement of amateur science. It describes the ideology of the amateur scientific societies as the philosophy of the Enlightenment Movement and their social structure and the way they made modern science such a magnificent institution. It also shows what was missing in the scientific organization of science and why it gave way to professional science in stages. In particular the book studies the contributions of Sir Francis Bacon and of the Hon. Robert Boyle to the rise of modern science. The philosophy of induction is notoriously problematic, yet its great asset is that it expressed the view of the Enlightenment Movement about science. This explains the ambivalence that we still exhibit towards Sir Francis Bacon whose radicalism and vision of pure and applied science still a major aspect of the fabric of society. Finally, the book discusses Boyle’s philosophy, his agreement with and dissent from Bacon and the way he single-handedly trained a crowd of poorly educated English aristocrats and rendered them into an army of able amateur researchers.

Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992 -- Exhibitions. --- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. --- Science -- Early works to 1800. --- Science. --- Science --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Philosophy & Religion --- Sciences - General --- Philosophy --- History --- Philosophy. --- Bacon, Francis, --- Boyle, Robert, --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- T. E., --- E., T., --- R. B. --- B., R. --- Person of quality, --- Person of honour, --- Boyle, R. --- Fellow of the Royal Society, --- Boyle, Robertus, --- T. H. R. B. --- B., T. H. R. --- Bacon de Verulam, François --- Bacon, François --- Philosophy and science. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Science and philosophy