English Science, Bacon to Newton

Name: English Science, Bacon to Newton
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ISBN: 9780521316835

ISBN-10: 0521316839

ISBN-13: 9780521316835

Edition: 1987

Authors: Brian Vickers

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Seventeenth-century England witnessed an unprecedented flourishing of natural philosophy, inspired by Francis Bacon's call for a new science based on observation and experiment, to be carried out in collective research projects,whose findings would be communicated in clear language. This anthology documents the effect of Bacon's ideas in the remarkably fruitful period following 1660. It includes his sketch of a scientific research institute in the New Atlantis (1627), which inspired the founding of the Royal Society in 1662, as acknowledged by Thomas Sprat in its History, excerpted here. Bacon's plea for an appropriate language for science also affected the Royal Society, as Sprat records,…

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List price: $52.99
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/21/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.726



Acknowledgements


Introduction




Preparative towards a Natural and Experimental History, 1620



New Atlantis, c.1624




Experiments with the air pump, 1660



The Sceptical Chymist, 1661




Experimental Philosophy, 1664




Micrographia, 1665



On Earthquakes and Fossils, 1668




History of the Royal Society, 1667




An Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language, 1668




A New Theory about Light and Colours, 1672


Appendix


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