Science, faith, and politics: Francis Bacon and the utopian roots of the modern age: a commentary on Bacon's Advancement of learning

Ithaca: Cornell University Press (1985)
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Abstract

Jerry Weinberger here seeks to establish Francis Bacon's rightful place among the founders--with Machiavelli and Hobbes--of the modern political tradition, claiming that Bacon's view of the sources of the modern age has great resonance for the problems of our contemporary scientific society.

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