Bacon, Sir Francis.; Novum Organum Scientiarum. & Sermones Fideles, Ethici, Politici, Economici: Sive Interiora Rerum. Lvgd. Bat. Apud Adrianum Wijnggaerde, et Franciscum Moiardum, 1644-1645. Octavo, pp. 22, 435 and pp. 416, 3, 2 ornate title pages.

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A British scholar; Sir Francis Bacon, (1561-1626) was a pioneer of the scitentific method. During his years of political service, Francis Bacon wrote a collection of essays and several works on reorganizing the natural sciences and provided which were published before and after in death. The most important of these was the "Novum Organum", first published in 1620. The title is taken from Aristotle's Organum, meaning "logical works", and was radical departure from the traditional method of scientific inquiry. This work, along with the rest of his published and unpublished philosophical writings, can be seen as part of his grandiose plan to reorganize the sciences. This reorganization involved a projected, and largely unfinished, six-part work entitled Instauratio. The plan involved: A new division of the sciences, A new method of scientific inquiry, A collection of scientific observations and facts, Examples of the new method, Philosophical precursors to the new philosophy, and the new philosophy itself resulting from the application of the new method. The Novum Organum is divided into two parts. The first part, Book I, deals with the need for an inductive system, and the second, Book II, deals with the applications of such a method. His second collection of essays: "Sermones Fideles" was first published in 1638 and pertains to the ethics, politics and economics associated with the methods of scientific inquiry. The above copy is the rare Latin translation from the original edition.