Francis Bacon: The Double-Edged Life of the Philosopher and Statesman

by Robert P. Ellis

Around the time Shakespeare inaugurated the golden age of English drama, the young Francis Bacon proposed to take "all knowledge to be my province." He soon realized the difficulty of that but in the process he posed two related questions, which he understood better than any other man of his time: Can human beings respect and obey nature, and Can they also command nature? He asked many other questions considered useless and impractical in his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786497270
• ISBN13: 9780786497270
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher