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"Francis Bacon (1561-1626), commonly regarded as one of the founders of the Scientific Revolution, exerted a powerful influence on the intellectual development of the modern world. He also led a remarkably varied and dramatic life as a philosopher, writer, lawyer, courtier, and statesman. Although there has been much recent scholarship on individual aspects of Bacon's career, Perez Zagorin's is the first work in many years to present a comprehensive...

Viewers examine the work of Francis Bacon and explore his studio in London. Learn what inspired him to create the violent imagery in Three Figures in a Room, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, Triptych Inspired by Oresteia of Aeschylus, and The Triptych in Memory of George Dyer.

In the origins of Western philosophical thought, doctrines of physics intertwined with debates among political philosophers. It is for this reason that Plato devoted his dialogues Theatetus and Parmenides to investigating and meeting the arguments of his principal philosophical adversaries. The doctrine of atomism, which developed under the influence of Parmenides's philosophy, is one that Plato refutes directly. In the modern era of philosophy and...

This is the first extensive one-volume anthology of Bacon's writings since 1905. It includes the major English literary works on which his reputation rests: the Advancement of Learning (1605), the Essays (1597 and 1625), and the posthumously published New Atlantis (1626). In addition it reprints sixteen other works which are not otherwise available, which show Bacon's remarkable all-round abilities in politics, law, theology, and poetry. A special...