The Advancement of Learning
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(7 ratings)624 pages1989Hyperion BooksISBN 9781852970123
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
- Hyperion Books
- Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 624
- ISBN
- 9781852970123
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An English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author known as the father of Empiricism.
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