Synopses & Reviews
A new translation and edition of Baconâs revolutionary work of scientific philosophy.
Review
"The importance of this work is evident...the Cambridge edition does a respectable job at striving for both accuracy and readability. I would recommend this edition of Bacon's New Organon for use in survey and/or mid-level courses dealing with the development of seventeenth-century philosophy and science." Teaching Philosophy
Review
"The importance of this work is evident...the Cambridge edition does a respectable job at striving for both accuracy and readability. I would recommend this edition of Bacon's New Organon for use in survey and/or mid-level courses dealing with the development of seventeenth-century philosophy and science." Teaching Philosophy
Synopsis
This volume presents a new translation by Michael Silverthorne of Baconâs revolutionary work of scientific philosophy, together with an introduction by Lisa Jardine that sets it in the context of Baconâs scientific and philosophical activities.
Table of Contents
Plan of the work; The second part of the work: the New Organon or true directions for the interpretation of nature; Summary of the second part of the work, digested into aphorisms: Book I, Book II.