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Your search for posts with tags containing Francis Bacon found 15 posts
In ‘The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish’, one of the stories that make up Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell’s best-known work, the eponymous narrator is in a taxi when he hears a song on the radio “about how everything that dies...
An early inscription on the title page reads: “taken out of his parti[…?]n of scienc[…?] 2d: 2ii–“Francis Bacon’s Essays was one of the polymath’s most popular works, reprinted in over fifty separate English-language...
One of the aims of Early Modern Female Book Ownership is to document women owners in the hope of discerning patterns of ownership, whether broader or localized to an individual. In Katherine Blount’s case, I had drafted a post in spring 2019 about...
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.” So writes Sir Francis Bacon in his essay “Of Studies” (1597). What exactly he means by this three-part aphorism is unclear, so let’s focus just...
When we think of knowledge in the context of government, we often think of statistics. In fact, it’s arguable that statistics are not merely an especially prominent form of politically useful knowledge, but that their increasing use, starting in...
University of York, 13-14th May 2016Herbert of Cherbury is, today, an under-rated philosopher. However, his main work of philosophy, De veritate (1624) was an internationally influential book in its time, as were his writings on religion De religione...
By Melissa Schultheis There are few events that could put me to work before 8 A.M. on a Saturday with a smile on my face, but Networking Early Modern Women was certainly one of them. Networking Women and the subsequent “add-a-thon” trained...
It all started when someone noticed a blog post on Anglo-Saxonist Allen J Frantzen's website titled "How to Fight Your Way Out of a Feminist Fog"...
By Hillary Nunn Since the beta version of Six Degrees of Francis Bacon (SDFB) debuted in September, users have been joyfully exploring early modern social networks with the interface’s easy-to-use tools and color-coded illustrations. The much anticipated...
A detail from Breughel’s The Hay Harvest
For once the English summer hasn’t let us down and until the last few days we’ve enjoyed weeks of fine, warm weather. August is harvest-time. In The Tempest, Shakespeare writes of the “sunburnt...
For a long time now I’ve been interested in the ways in which the worlds of Restoration experimental philosophy and Restoration trade and other economic activities came into contact. The early Fellows of the Royal Society were adamant that their research...
Leading up to the start of term, I have been preparing some materials for a class I will be teaching on early modern literature. Although everybody takes notes when they are reading, I thought it might be interesting to follow the lead of others who...
The essayist, moral philosopher, and statesman Francis Bacon claims that gardens are “the purest of human pleasures” (430). In the essay “Of Gardens”, he details the varying perfumes of flowers and the planting of trees, “wild...
Plate from Mathew Baker’s book
BBC 2 is currently screening a season, Genius of Invention, accompanied by a listing of 50 Great British Inventions. But although these include the obvious (steam and jet engine) and the quirky (soda water, baby buggy),...
"God Almighty first planted a garden; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
English philosopher, statesman, and scientist
"On Gardens" in The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, by Francis ld. Verulam...
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