BACON, Francis (1561-1626). The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane. London: [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, 1605.
BACON, Francis (1561-1626). The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane. London: [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, 1605. 4 o (178 x 131 mm). With final blank present (without the two added leaves of errata found in only a few copies, probably of late issue). (Worming to lower margin, affecting some letters, upper margin trimmed closely affecting a few running titles.) Modern calf. Provenance : Franz Sondheimer (bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF THE "PREPARATIVE OR KEY FOR THE OPENING OF THE INSTAURATION" (Grolier/Horblit). The Advancement of learning was the first of two works in which Bacon expounded his philosophy of scientific method. It was expanded and latinized as De augmentis scientiarum in 1623. "In the Twoo bookes, Bacon concerned himself primarily with the classification of philosophy and the sciences and with developing his influential view of the relation between science and theology" (Norman 97). Gibson 81; Grolier/Horblit 8a; Pforzheimer 36; STC 1164.
BACON, Francis (1561-1626). The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane. London: [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, 1605.
BACON, Francis (1561-1626). The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane. London: [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, 1605. 4 o (178 x 131 mm). With final blank present (without the two added leaves of errata found in only a few copies, probably of late issue). (Worming to lower margin, affecting some letters, upper margin trimmed closely affecting a few running titles.) Modern calf. Provenance : Franz Sondheimer (bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF THE "PREPARATIVE OR KEY FOR THE OPENING OF THE INSTAURATION" (Grolier/Horblit). The Advancement of learning was the first of two works in which Bacon expounded his philosophy of scientific method. It was expanded and latinized as De augmentis scientiarum in 1623. "In the Twoo bookes, Bacon concerned himself primarily with the classification of philosophy and the sciences and with developing his influential view of the relation between science and theology" (Norman 97). Gibson 81; Grolier/Horblit 8a; Pforzheimer 36; STC 1164.
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