Knowledge is power : how magic, the government and an apocalyptic vision helped Francis Bacon to create modern science /: how magic, the government and an apocalyptic vision helped Francis Bacon to create modern science. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John Henry.
• Authors: Henry, John, 1950-
• Contents: 'Kindling a light in nature -- Inventing modern science -- 'Believing that I was born for the service of mankind -- 'Being of all men of my time the most busied in affairs of state -- 'Enlarging of the bounds of human empire': Bacon and magic -- 'Effecting of all things possible': magic and the experimental method -- 'Seeking for experiments of light': Bacon and the decline of magic -- Separating science and religion? -- Restoring lost dominion: Bacon and the millennium -- Building a model of the world: Bacon and Utopia -- Writing philosophy like a Lord Chancellor: Bacon and the bureaucracy of science -- Extending the empire of man? Bacon, the law and Mother Nature -- Leaving it to the next ages -- Waiting for the harvest?
• Publisher Details: London : Icon Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2002
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 509.2; Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Empiricism -- History; Sciences -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 16e siècle; Sciences -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 17e siècle; Empirisme -- Histoire; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology; SCIENCE -- History; Empiricism; Science; Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Biography; Great Britain -- History -- James I, 1603-1625 -- Biography; Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1558-1603 (Élisabeth Ire) -- Biographies; Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1603-1625 (Jacques Ier) -- Biographies; Great Britain; Biography; Biographies; History; Biographies; Biographies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785782510; 1785782517
• Related ISBNs: 1785782363; 9781785782367
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.
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