Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626

Brian Harvey Goodwin Wormald

Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 March 1993
Pages
424
ISBN
9780521307734

Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626

Brian Harvey Goodwin Wormald

Brian Wormald provides a fundamental reappraisal of one of the most complex and innovative figures of the late-Elizabethan and Jacobean age. In the centuries since his death, Francis Bacon (1561-1626) has been perceived and studied as a promoter and prophet of the philosophy of science–natural science–but he saw himself also as a clarifier and promoter of what he called policy or the study and improvement of the structure and function of civil states. Mr. Wormald shows that Bacon was concerned equally with the knowledge of the world of nature and with that of policy. The junction between the two enterprises was effected by his work in history; and in the end it was Bacon’s conception and practice of history that provided the answer to his efforts to advance policy and natural philosophy.

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