The Advancement of LearningFrancis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning (1605) is considered the first major philosophical book written in English. In it, Bacon is concerned with scientific learning: the current state of knowledge, obstacles to its progress, and his own plans for revitalization of schools and universities. Here Bacon sets forth the first account of science as intended for "the relief of man's estate." |
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... Aristotle ) or as divine ( as with Plato and corrupted Christian thought ) . The former falsely conceives of nature as if it were God ; the latter falsely conceives of nature as a god- like extension of God . To describe the effects of ...
... Aristotle's scholar in philosophy, and the other was Cicero's rival in eloquence: or if any man had rather call for scholars that were great generals, than generals that were great scholars, let him take Epaminondas the Theban, or ...
... Aristotle their dic- tator ) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and col- leges , and knowing little history , either of nature or time , did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit spin ...
... Aristotle is worthy to be observed; that, having made so diligent and exquisite a history of living creatures, hath mingled it sparingly with any vain or feigned matter: and yet on the other side, hath cast all prodigious narrations ...
... Aristotle, Plato, Democritus, Hippocrates, Euclides, Archimedes, of most vigour at the first and by time degenerate and imbased; whereof the reason is no other, but that in the former many wits and industries have con- tributed in one ...