The Advancement of Learning
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~87,600 words · 416 passages
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What it is about
The Advancement of Learning (1605): an inventory of everything known and everything missing.
Context and history
Bacon divides human knowledge by faculty — memory, imagination, reason — and marks the gaps field by field. It is the first modern attempt to map the whole of knowledge, and both the Encyclopédie and the very idea of a research programme come out of it.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
Changed “considering that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditious, and changes” to “considering that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes”. CASSELL’S NATIONAL LIBRARY. * * * * * THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. BY FRANCIS BACON. [Picture: Decorative graphic] CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited: _LONDON_, _PARIS & MELBOURNE_. 1893. INTRODUCTION. “THE TVVOO Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, divine and humane. To the King. At London. Printed for Henrie Tomes, and are to be sould at his shop at Graies Inne Gate in Holborne. 1605.” That was the original title-page of the book now in the reader’s hand—a living book that led the way to a new world of thought. It was the book in which Bacon, early in the reign of James the First, prepared the way for a full setting forth of his New Organon, or instrument of knowledge. The Organon of Aristotle was a set of treatises in which Aristotle had written the doctrine of propositions. Study of these treatises was a chief occupation of young men when they passed from school to college, and proceeded from Grammar to Logic, the second of the Seven Sciences. Francis Bacon as a youth of sixteen, at Trinity College, Cambridge, felt the unfruitfulness of this method of search after truth. He was the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Queen Elizabeth’s Lord Keeper, and was born at York House, in the Strand, on the 22nd of January, 1561. His mother was the Lord Keeper’s second wife, one of two sisters, of whom the other married Sir William Cecil, afterwards Lord Burleigh. Sir Nicholas Bacon had six children by his former marriage, and by his second wife two sons, Antony and Francis, of whom Antony was about two years the elder. The family home was at York Place, and at Gorhambury, near St. Albans, from which town, in its ancient and its modern style, Bac
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