Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy [Hardcover]

This book, first published in 2001, provides a truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher.This ambitious and important book provides the first truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. It explores in detail how and why Bacon attempted to transform the largely esoteric discipline of natural philosophy into a public practice through a program in which practical science provided a model that inspired many from the 17th to the 20th centuries.This book will be recognized as a major contribution to Baconian scholarship of special interest to historians of early-modern philosophy, science, and ideas.This ambitious and important book provides the first truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. It explores in detail how and why Bacon attempted to transform the largely esoteric discipline of natural philosophy into a public practice through a program in which practical science provided a model that inspired many from the 17th to the 20th centuries.This book will be recognized as a major contribution to Baconian scholarship of special interest to historians of early-modern philosophy, science, and ideas.This ambitious and important book provides the first truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. It explores in detail how and why Bacon attempted to transform the largely esoteric discipline of natural philosophy into a public practice through a program in which practical science provided a model that inspired many from the 17th to the 20th centuries. This book will be recognized as a major contribution to Baconian scholarship of special interest to historians of early modern philosophy, science, and ideas.1. The nature of Bacon's project; 2. Humanist models for scientia; 3. The legitimation of natural philosophy; 4. The shaping of the natural philosopher; 5. Method as a way of pursuing natural philosophy; 6. Dominion over nature; 7. Conclusion. ...a well-rounded and fairly comprehensive overview of Bacon the philosophló<