Access The History Of The Reign Of King Henry VII Translated By Francis Bacon Displayed In Manuscript
remembered for his role in ending the Wars of the Roses, Henry VII remains a rather mysterious figure.
This biographyone of the first modern classics of English historyreveals the often surprising man behind the crown.
Although written some hundred years after the death of Henry VII, Francis Bacon's analysis of the monarch's life is both penetrating and insightful.
Rather than simply cataloging the facts of his reign, Bacon examines Henry VII's motivations to create not only an important historical work, but also a key document in the development of political thought.
The result is essential reading for anyone interested in British history, politics, or literature, Statesman, scientist, philosopher, and essayist, Francis Baconis one of the leading figures in Elizabethan and Jacobean history.
Francis Bacon,st Viscount St Alban, QC, was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist, and author.
He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England, After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.
Bacon has been called the creator of empiricism, His works established and popularised inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry,
often called the Baconian method, or simply the scientific method.
His demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things natural marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, much of which still sur Francis Bacon,st Viscount St Alban, QC, was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist, and author.
He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England, After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.
Bacon has been called the creator of empiricism, His works established and popularised inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method, or simply the scientific method.
His demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things natural marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, much of which still surrounds conceptions of proper methodology today.
Bacon was knighted inbeing the first scientist to receive a knighthood, and created Baron Verulam inand Viscount St.
Alban in. Bacon's ideas were influential in thes ands among scholars, in particular Sir Thomas Browne, who in his encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemicafrequently adheres to a Baconian approach to his scientific enquiries.
During the Restoration, Bacon was commonly invoked as a guiding spirit of the Royal Society founded under Charles II in.
During theth century French Enlightenment, Bacon's non metaphysical approach to science became influential than the dualism of his French contemporary sitelink René Descartes, and was associated with criticism of the ancien regime.
Insitelink Voltaire "introduced him as the "father" of the scientific method" to a French audience, an understanding which had become widespread by.
In theth century his emphasis on induction was revived and developed by sitelink William Whewell, among others.
He has been reputed as the "Father of Experimental Science", Bacon is also considered because of his introduction of science in England to be the philosophical influence behind the dawning of the Industrial age.
In his works, Bacon stated "the explanation of which things, and of the true relation between the nature of things and the nature of the mind, is as the strewing and decoration of the bridal chamber of the mind and the universe, out of which marriage let us hope there may spring helps to man, and a line and race of inventions that may in some degree subdue and overcome the necessities and miseries of humanity" meaning he hoped that through the understanding of mechanics using the Scientific Method, society will create mechanical inventions that will to an extent solve the problems of Man.
This changed the course of science in history, from a experimental state, as it was found in medieval ages, to an experimental and inventive state that would have eventually led to the mechanical inventions that made possible the Industrial Revolutions of the following centuries.
He also wrote a long treatise on Medicine, History of Life and Death, with natural and experimental observations for the prolongation of life.
For one of his biographers, the historian William Hepworth Dixon, Bacon's influence in modern world is so great that every man who rides in a train, sends a telegram, follows a steam plough, sits in an easy chair, crosses the channel or the Atlantic, eats a good dinner, enjoys a beautiful garden, or undergoes a painless surgical operation, owes him something.
Francis Bacon's philosophy is displayed in the vast and varied writings he left, which might be divided in three great branches:Scientific works in which his ideas for an universal reform of knowledge into scientific methodology and the improvement of mankind's state using the Scientific method are presented.
Literary works in which he presents his moral philosophy, Juridical works in which his reforms in English Law are proposed, Librarian Note: There is than one author in the Goodreads database with this name, sitelink.