Francis Bacon: The Major Works

by Francis Bacon

Book Overview

This authoritative edition brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing--the major prose in full, together with sixteen other pieces not otherwise available--that reveals the essence of his work and thinking.

Francis Bacon held some of the highest public offices in the land and in his spare time studied natural philosophy and a wide variety of other subjects. His systematic classification of all branches of knowledge became the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192840819
• ISBN13: 9780192840813
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 864 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.7" x 5.1"