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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, and gave birth to a number of schemes for man-made artificial languages, represented here by John Wilkins's Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (1668). The selections are accompanied by a general introduction, extensive notes, contemporary illustrations, a glossary of obsolete and technical terms and an updated bibliography.

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Title English Science: Bacon to Newton
Author Brian Vickers (Editor)
Binding Paperback
Pages 260
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, University Press, 1987.
Publication date 1987-05-21
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated
ISBN 9780521316835 / 0521316839
Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.59 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.50 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: British
Category Science
Library of Congress subjects Science - Great Britain - History
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 86019265
Dewey Decimal Code 509.41

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by Vickers, Brian (Editor); Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Henry Power, Robert Hooke, Thomas Sprat, John Wilkins, Isaac Newton

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