1658 RARE Austen on Francis Bacon Natural History Philosophy Science Experiments

1658 RARE Austen on Francis Bacon Natural History Philosophy Science Experiments

 

“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.

 

Bacon’s “Historia Naturalis,” or ‘Natural History’ was written 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.

 

Author Ralph Austen published his observations and commentary on Bacon’s famed work. This 1658 first edition of Austen’s ‘Observations’ was published in Oxford by Hall and Robinson.

 

Item number: #24466

Price: $1500

 

AUSTEN, Ralph

 

Observations upon some part of Sr Francis Bacon’s Naturall history as it concernes fruit-trees, fruits, and flowers

 

Oxford: Printed by Hen. Hall, for Thomas Robinson, 1658. First edition.

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [8], 46, [2]
• References: Wig A 4234
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~7.5in X 5.75in (19cm x 14.5cm)
• Very rare and desirable

 

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