The father of Empiricism, the Elizabethan philosopher Francis Bacon was an advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. His pioneering works argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature. This comprehensive eBook presents Bacon’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Bacon’s life and works

* Concise introductions to the major texts

* All the major works, with individual contents tables

* Features rare treatises appearing for the first time in digital publishing

* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

* Excellent formatting of the texts

* Special criticism section, with essays evaluating Bacon’s contribution to philosophy and the ‘Bacon is Shakespeare’ theory

* Features three biographies - discover Bacon’s intriguing life

* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

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CONTENTS:

The Books

The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

The Colours of Good and Evil

Meditationes Sacrae

Valerius Terminus of the Interpretation of Nature

The Advancement and Proficience of Learning Divine and Human

In Felicem Memoriam Elizabethae

De Sapientia Veterum

Instauratio Magna

Novum Organum Scientiarum

History of the Reign of King Henry VII

Translation of Certain Psalms into English Verse

Preparative toward a Natural and Experimental History

New Atlantis

Sylva Sylvarvm

Theological Tracts

The Union of the Two Kingdoms of Scotland and England

The Criticism

Bacon is Shake-Speare by Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence

Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown by Andrew Lang

Forty Years of Bacon-Shakespeare Folly by John Fiske

The Classification of the Sciences — Francis Bacon by Walter Libby

The Biographies

Bacon by R. W. Church

The Mystery of Francis Bacon by William T. Smedley

Brief Biography: Francis Bacon by Robert Adamson

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