Francis Bacon Publishes Novum Organum
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Education, Literature, Publishing, Science
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Enlightenment, Scientists
- Curriculum: British History, Renaissance History, 17th Century European History
- Geographical Location: London
- Date: 1620
Article abstract: Francis Bacon publishes Novum Organum, establishing an impressive agenda for modern science and inspiring the work of later groups, such as the Royal Society of London.
Summary of Event
Even by the standards of its age, Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum was an outrageously ambitious book. England was still full of “Renaissance men” with the financial means to avoid narrow specializations and, in Bacon’s famous phrase, to take all knowledge for their province. A number of learned women thrived as well—including Bacon’s...
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