Collected Works of Francis Bacon - Delphi Classics [epub]

The father of Empiricism, the Elizabethan philosopher Francis Bacon was an advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. His pioneering works argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature. This comprehensive eBook presents Bacon’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

CONTENTS:
The Books
The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
The Colours of Good and Evil
Meditationes Sacrae
Valerius Terminus of the Interpretation of Nature
The Advancement and Proficience of Learning Divine and Human
In Felicem Memoriam Elizabethae
De Sapientia Veterum
Instauratio Magna
Novum Organum Scientiarum
History of the Reign of King Henry VII
Translation of Certain Psalms into English Verse
Preparative toward a Natural and Experimental History
New Atlantis
Sylva Sylvarvm
Theological Tracts
The Union of the Two Kingdoms of Scotland and England

The Criticism
Bacon is Shake-Speare by Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown by Andrew Lang
Forty Years of Bacon-Shakespeare Folly by John Fiske
The Classification of the Sciences — Francis Bacon by Walter Libby

The Biographies
Bacon by R. W. Church
The Mystery of Francis Bacon by William T. Smedley
Brief Biography: Francis Bacon by Robert Adamson

Length: 3290 pages