Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought

Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the publication of Francis Bacon''s Advancement of Learning (1605), this collection examines Bacon''s recasting of proto-scientific philosophies and practices into early modern discourses of knowledge. Like Bacon, all of the contributors to this volume confront an essential question: how to integrate intellectual traditions with emergent knowledges to forge n...