1648 Francis Bacon Natural History & Philosophy Scientific Experiments Wind

1648 Francis Bacon Natural History & Philosophy Scientific Experiments Wind

 

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”

― Francis Bacon

 

Francis Bacon, one of the most famous English philosophers and scientists of the Renaissance. While most of his work deals with discovery, scientific method, and the scientific revolution, he did lean strongly toward Puritanism in his personal devotion.

 

An extremely rare Elzevier printing of Bacon’s “Historia Naturalis,” or ‘Natural History.’ While Elzevier does not appear on the imprint or title page, Willems makes mention that Hackiana was an extension of the house of Elzevier. In this work, Francis Bacon sought to show the divisions of natural history, but more importantly to show how natural history overlaps with natural philosophy and they are not two distinct disciplines. This book helped lay the foundation for many philosophical methodologies that would be important through the 18^th– and 19^th-centuries.

 

Item number: #18225

Price: $750

 

BACON, Francis

 

Fr. Baconi De Verulamio Historia naturalis & experimentalis de ventis, &c

 

Lugduni Batavorium: Franc. Hackium, 1648.

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [16], 232, [16]
• References: Willems 1279; Goldsmid I, 21
• Provenance: Handwritten – Patrick [T] Simpson, 1874
• Language: Latin
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~5in X 3in (12.5cm x 7.5cm)

 

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