Knowledge is power : how magic, the government and an apocalyptic vision inspired Francis Bacon to create modern science / John Henry.
Pubblicazione:
Cambridge : Icon books, 2003.
Descrizione fisica:
VII, 177 p. : ill., ritr. ; 20 cm
Contiene:
Indice: About the author. List of illustrations. Acknowledgements. 1. Kindling a light in nature 2. Inventing modern science 3. Believing that I was born for the service of mankind 4. Being of all men of my time the most busied in affairs of State 5. Enlarging of the bounds of human empire: Bacon and magic 6. Effecting of all things possible: magic and the experimental method 7. Seeking for experiments of light: Bacon and the decline of magic 8. Separating science and religion? 9. Restoring lost dominion: Bacon and the millennium 10. Building a model of the world: Bacon and utopia 11. Writing philosophy like a Lord Chancellor: Bacon and the bureaucracy of science 12. Extending the empire of man? Bacon, the law and mother nature 13. Leaving it to the next ages 14. Waiting for the harvest? Glossary. Further reading. Notes. Other science titles available from Icon/Totem books
