TY - BOOK ID - 85642590 TI - The works of Francis Bacon. AU - Bacon, Francis AU - Spedding, James AU - Ellis, Robert Leslie AU - Heath, Douglas Denon PY - 2013 SN - 1139149555 1108040659 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy, British UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85642590 AB - Francis Bacon (1561-1626), the English philosopher, statesman and jurist, is best known for developing the empiricist method which forms the basis of modern science. Bacon's writings concentrated on philosophy and judicial reform. His most significant work is the Instauratio Magna comprising two parts - The Advancement of Learning and the Novum Organum. The first part is noteworthy as the first major philosophical work published in English (1605). James Spedding (1808-81) and his co-editors arranged this fourteen-volume edition, published in London between 1857 and 1874, not in chronological order but by subject matter, so that different volumes would appeal to different audiences. Volume 2, published in 1857, continues part 1 of Bacon's Latin writings intended to be included as part of the Instauratio Magna. ER -