Francis Bacon's natural philosophy and the laws of nature / Silvia Manzo.
Pubblicazione:
London : Routledge, 2026.
Descrizione fisica:
XIV, 315 p. ; 25 cm
Serie:
Global perspectives on the history of natural philosophy
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgements. List of abbreviations. Further abbreviations of editions and translations of Francis. Bacon's works. Introduction. Pt. 1. 1. Background and contexts of Bacon's natural philosophy 2. The history of nature 3. Necessity and contingency in nature and human life 4. The constitution of matter: from atoms to latent schematisms 5. Motion 6. Cosmology. Pt. 2. 7. The summary law of nature 8. The maxims of natural philosophy, the law of the conservation of matter and the law of the preservation of the greater whole 9. Forms 10. Customs of nature 11. Miracles from nature to art 12. The nomological system and its ontological, epistemological and historical import. References. Index
