English Science: Bacon to Newton

By: Vickers, Brian

Book Overview

Seventeenth-century England witnessed an unprecedented flourishing of natural philosophy, inspired by Francis Bacon's call for a new science based on observation and experiment, to be carried out in collective research projects, whose findings would be communicated in clear language. This anthology documents the effect of Bacon's ideas in the remarkably fruitful period following 1660. It includes his sketch of a scientific research institute in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521316839
• ISBN13: 9780521316835
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"