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Contents: Introduction, Julie Robin Solomon Bacon, atomism, and imposture: the true and the useful in history, myth and theory, Reid Barbour The new science and the via negativa: a mystical source for Baconian empiricism, Michael McCanles The feminine birth of the mind: regendering the empirical subject in Bacon and his followers, Catherine Gimelli Martin 'The very idea!': Francis Bacon and E.O. Wilson on the rehabilitation of Eidos, John C. Briggs Francis Bacon and the unity of knowledge: reason and revelation, Jerry Weinberger The hidden life of matter: techniques for prolonging of life in the writings of Francis Bacon, Guido Giglioni 'The purer foundations': Bacon and legal education, Daniel R. Coquillette A society of Baconians?: the collective development of Bacon's method in the Royal Society of London, William T. Lynch Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning and historical thought, Fritz Levy 'Seated between the old world and the new': geopolitics, natural philosophy and proficient method, Timothy J. Reiss Select bibliography Index.
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