Of the advancement and proficience of learning; or, The partitions of sciences·
Subtitle: Nine books. Written in Latin by the most eminent, illustrious, and famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, Vicount St. Alban, Councellor of Estate, and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Watts
Contributors: Watts, Gilbert, d. 1657
Series: Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 1980:11
Publisher: printed by Leon Lichfield printer to the University, for Robert Young and Edward Forrest
Published: 1640
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 477
Subjects: Science -- Methodology -- Early works to 1800; Logic -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: Of the proficience and advancement of learning; Instauratio magna; Of the aduancement of learning; Partitions of sciences
Work titles: De augmentis scientiarum.
Notes: An English translation of the "De augmentis scientiarum" which is an enlargement, translated into Latin, of Bacon's "The advancement of learning", 1605

Part 1 of the projected "Instauratio magna"

Running title reads: Of the aduancement of learning

Includes indexes

This edition has a cancel letterpress title page and colophon is dated 1640. A variant issue (STC 1167.3) has colophon dated 1640. Another variant issue has colophon dated M.DC.XXXIX (STC 1167)

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Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, England

Identified by ESTC as STC (2nd ed.) 1167.5

Madan I, p. 217

STC 1167.7

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1991. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1980:11).