The  new organon
By: Francis Bacon ; edited by Lisa Jardine, Michael Silverthorne.
Contributors: Jardine, Lisa.; Silverthorne, Michael.
Series: Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge [U.K.]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Induction (Logic) -- Early works to 1800; Science -- Methodology -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800; Early works to 1800.
Description: "When The New Organon appeared in 1620, as part of a six-part programme of scientific inquiry entitled 'The Great Renewal of Learning', Francis Bacon was at the high point of his political career, and his ambitious work was groundbreaking in its attempt to give formal philosophical shape to a new and rapidly emerging experimentally based science. Bacon combines theoretical scientific epistemology with examples from applied science, examining phenomena as various as magnetism, gravity and the ebb and flow of the tides, and anticipating later experimental work by Robert Boyle and others. His work challenges the entire edifice of the philosophy and learning of his time, and has left its mark on all subsequent philosophical discussions of scientific method. This volume presents a new translation of the text into modern English by Michael Silverthorne, together with an introduction by Lisa Jardine that sets the work in the context of Bacon's scientific and philosophical activities."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.