TY - BOOK ID - 85645546 TI - The Works of Francis Bacon. AU - Bacon, Francis AU - Spedding, James AU - Heath, Douglas Denon AU - Ellis, Robert Leslie PY - 1868 SN - 1139149636 110804073X PB - Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Philosophers KW - Bacon, Francis, KW - Scholars KW - Bacon de Verulam, François KW - Bacon, François UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85645546 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. The material is divided into three parts: philosophy and general literature; legal works; and letters, speeches and tracts relating to politics. Volume 10, published in 1868, contains Bacon's letters and political writings from 1601 to 1607. Of note is Bacon's support of the union of England and Scotland. ER -