“Things Themselves”: Francis Bacon’s Epistemological Reform and the Maintenance of the State

By Andrew Barnaby

This essay attempts to provide a specific cultural context for Francis Bacon's project of natural philosophical reform. Documenting Bacon's earliest understanding of the link between the nature and uses of natural philosophy and what he would call…

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