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English Science: Bacon to Newton (Cambridge English Prose Texts)

English Science: Bacon to Newton (Cambridge English Prose Texts)

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  • ISBN-13: 9780521304085
  • ISBN: 0521304083
  • Publication Date: 1987
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

AUTHOR

Vickers, Brian

SUMMARY

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.Vickers, Brian is the author of 'English Science: Bacon to Newton (Cambridge English Prose Texts)', published 1987 under ISBN 9780521304085 and ISBN 0521304083.

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