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Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Operum Moralium et Civilium Tomus... ab ipso honoratissimo auctore, praeterquam in paucis, Latinitate donatus

Londini
Edwardi Griffini
1638

Folio, (16)], 386 [i.e. 384], [16], 475 pp. Signatures: pi 1, A-2H6, 2I-2L4, 3A8, 3B-4R6 4S4 (pi1, A4, and 2E6 blank). Copper-engraved portrait of Bacon, some browning and some wormholes in last 5 leaves, full cont. vellum (small repair on top of back, some old wormholes)

First Edition. Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was a British statesman, scientist and philosopher whose influence on the history of thought can hardly be overstated. Although his own scientific achievements were slight, his advocacy of the scientific method, with emphasis on the experimental and factual, rather than the philosophical and speculative, had a profound effect on the development of modern science. This is the first collected edition of his works in Latin. With a number of separate title pages and some idiosyncrasies of pagination. Errors in paging: 177-178 omitted

Sciences

BACON, Francis