Advancement of Learning
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(7 ratings)160 pages1997Kessinger PublishingISBN 9781564594365
About this book
The Advancement of Learning (full title: Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human) is a 1605 book by Francis Bacon. It inspired the taxonomic structure of the highly influential Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Denis Diderot, and is credited by Bacon's biographer-essayist Catherine Drinker Bowen with being a pioneering essay in support of empirical philosophy.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Kessinger Publishing
- Published
- 1997
- Pages
- 160
- ISBN
- 9781564594365
About Unknown Author
An English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author known as the father of Empiricism.
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