The Advancement of Learning [Hardcover]

This is the first critical edition since the nineteenth century of Bacon's principal philosophical work in English,The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane- traditionally known asThe Advancement of Learning.

Michael Kiernan is Associate Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University, and editor ofFrancis Bacon: Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall(OUP/Harvard, 1985) to be reissued as Volume XV of OFB, 2000.