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UNINA9910780279703321 |
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Autore |
Gaukroger Stephen |
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Titolo |
Francis Bacon and the transformation of early-modern philosophy / / Stephen Gaukroger [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001 |
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1-107-12274-0 |
1-280-43040-0 |
0-511-04761-4 |
0-511-17381-4 |
0-511-61268-0 |
0-511-30221-5 |
0-521-80154-0 |
0-511-15304-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 249 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-241) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; References to Bacon s works; Prologue; 1 The nature of Bacon s project; 2 Humanist models for scientia; 3 The legitimation of natural philosophy; 4 The shaping of the natural philosopher; 5 Method as a way of pursuing natural philosophy; 6 Dominion over nature; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This ambitious and important book, first published in 2001, provides a truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. It describes how Bacon transformed the values that had underpinned philosophical culture since antiquity by rejecting the traditional idea of a philosopher as someone engaged in contemplation of the cosmos. The book explores in detail how and why Bacon attempted to transform the largely esoteric discipline of natural philosophy into a public practice through a program in which practical science provided a model that inspired many from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Stephen Gaukroger shows that this reform of natural philosophy was dependent on the creation of a new philosophical persona: a natural philosopher |
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