The Instauratio magna : last writings / edited with introduction, notes, commentaries and facing-page translations by Graham Rees.
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Clarendon press, 2000.
Descrizione fisica:
XCVI, 363 p. ; 23 cm
Serie:
The Oxford Francis Bacon ; 13
Note:
Nome dell'A.: F. Bacon nelle p. prelim.
Contiene:
List of plates. List of tables. References, abbreviations, sigla and symbols. Pt. 1. Introduction: 1. The texts: chronology and the Instauratio magna 2. The Historia densi and the Abecedarium: contexts and composition 3. The texts and their transmission. This edition: principles, conventions and a note on the translations. Pt. 2. The texts and translations: 1. Historia densi et rari (BN coll. Dupuy version) 2. Historia densi et rari (Rawley's version) 3. Abecedarium nouum naturae 4. Historia et inquisitio de animato et inanimato 5. Inquisitio de magnete 6. Topica inquisitionis de luce et lumine 7. Prodromi sive anticipationes philosophiae secundae. Pt. 3. The commentaries: 1. Commentary on Historia densi et rari 2. Commentary on Abecedarium nouum naturae 3. Commentary on Historia et inquisitio de animato et inanimato 4. Commentary on Inquisitio de magnete 5. Commentary on Topica inquisitionis de luce et lumine 6. Commentary on Prodromi sive anticipationes philosophiae secundae. Appendices: I. The Opuscula varia posthuma and scripta: bibliographical description and technical note II. Signature and folio references in this edition with corresponding page numbers in SEH. Select bibliography. General index
