This book, first published in 2001, provides a truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher.

The essays in the present volume attempt to historically reconstruct the various dependencies of philosophical and scientific knowledge of the material and tech

Originally published in 1968. This volume discusses Francis Bacon’s thought and work in the context of the European cultural environment that influenced Bacon

It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry we recognize as our