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Title: Francis Bacon: The New Organon (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Francis Bacon, Lisa Jardine, Michael Silverthorne, Karl Ameriks, Desmond M. Clarke ISBN: 0-521-56483-2 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: New Translation, New Readers
Comment: 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 ppropriate? Sometimes I wondered if the translation might be a little too up-to-date in its sensibilities and I found myself returning to the latin original to be reassured 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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Title: Francis Bacon: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)) by Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers ISBN: 0192840819 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Bacon (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Markku Peltonen ISBN: 052143534X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 26 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton, I. Bernard Cohen, Anne Whitman ISBN: 0520088174 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Leviathan (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hobbes, T. Hobbs, C. B. MacPherson ISBN: 0140431950 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1982 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Robert Boyle, Edward B. Davis, Michael Hunter, Karl Ameriks, Desmond M. Clarke ISBN: 0521567963 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 07 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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