Complete Essays - Brossura

Bacon, Francis

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486454436 ISBN 13: 9780486454436

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2008

Riassunto

Wise, witty, and immensely readable, these short but thought-provoking discourses examine life, death, and everything in between: truth, adversity, love, superstition, health, ambition, fame, and many other timeless topics. Francis Bacon — renowned as a scientist, scholar, and statesman — regarded the world as a puzzle to be solved. During the transition between the Renaissance and the early modern era, his methods of inductive reasoning exercised an enormous influence on seventeenth-century Europe. In these essays, Bacon effectively applied his scientific approach of observation and interpretation to human behavior.
Bacon originally intended the essays as personal notes, to be shared only with a few friends. He was persuaded to publish an initial installment in 1597, and the volume's continuing popularity led to his revised and enlarged version of 1625. This edition features all 58 essays of the later version, offering a splendid combination of style and substance.

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Introduction Of Truth Of Death Of Unity in Religion Of Revenge Of Adversity Of Simulation and Dissimulation Of Parents and Children Of Marriage and Single Life Of Envy Of Love Of Great Place Of Boldness Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature Of Nobility Of Seditions and Troubles Of Atheism Of Superstition Of Travel Of Empire Of Counsel Of Delay Of Cunning Of Wisdom for a Man's Self Of Innovations Of Dispatch Of Seeming Wise Of Friendship Of Expense Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates Of Regiment of Health Of Suspicion Of Discourse Of Plantation Of Riches Of Prophecies Of Ambition Of Masques and Triumphs Of Nature in Men Of Custom and Education Of Fortune Of Usury Of Youth and Age Of Beauty Of Deformity Of Building Of Gardens Of Negociating Of Followers and Friends Of Suitors Of Studies Of Faction Of Ceremonies Of Praise Of Vain-Glory Of Honour and Reputation Of Judicature Of Anger Of Vicissitude of Things Of Fame, a Fragment Index of Quotations and Foreign Phrases Glossary

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Book by Bacon Francis

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0486454436
• ISBN 13: 9780486454436
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 200