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by Francis Bacon (Author), Lisa Jardine (Editor), Michael Silverthorne (Editor) "He became aware that the human intellect is the source of its own problems, and makes no sensible and appropriate use of the very real..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 292 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press; New Ed edition (30 Mar 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0521564832
  • ISBN-13: 978-0521564830
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
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"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


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When the New Organon appeared in 1620, part of a six-part programme of scientific inquiry entitled ‘The Great Renewal of Learning’, Francis Bacon was at the high point of his political career, and his ambitious work was groundbreaking in its attempt to give formal philosophical shape to a new and rapidly emerging experimentally-based science. Bacon combines theoretical scientific epistemology with examples from applied science, examining phenomena as various as magnetism, gravity, and the ebb and flow of the tides, and anticipating later experimental work by Robert Boyle and others. His work challenges the entire edifice of the philosophy and learning of his time, and has left its mark on all subsequent philosophical discussions of scientific method. This volume presents a new translation of the text into modern English by Michael Silverthorne, and an introduction by Lisa Jardine that sets the work in the context of Bacon’s scientific and philosophical activities.
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He became aware that the human intellect is the source of its own problems, and makes no sensible and appropriate use of the very real aids which are within man's power; the consequence is a deeply layered ignorance of nature, and as a result of this ignorance, innumerable deprivations. Read the first page
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This is a very clear and readily assimilated translation of what may be considered the manifesto of the scientific revolution. Translating a seventeenth century Englishman, writing in Latin, back into English: should it be the English he would have written at that time, or is a more ahistorical rendering appropriate? Sometimes I wondered if the translation might be a little too up-to-date in its sensibilities and found myself returning to the Latin original to be assured that Bacon's original intent had been rendered. Although the text is admirably clear a few more footnotes would have been welcome. Those provided are either somewhat cryptic and brief notes of textual readings, or on the other hand, notes on personages that seem to pander too much to the ignorance of today's students - vero media est. Though the second part of Novum Organon seem but little removed from the alchemists den, Bacon's first part is as relevant to the scientific enterprise today as it ever was - modern physicists and geneticists should consider carefully whether, as aphorism LXIV warns, empiricism may be a greater danger than sophistic dogma ever was.
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