Natural history and the medicine of the mind: the roots of Francis Bacon`s Great Instauration
DANA JALOBEANU Abstract Francis Bacon founded his grand-scale project of a Great Instauration on what he has claimed to be a new and reformed natural history. This claim has been often taken for granted by Baconian scholars. This paper investigates some possible roots of Baconian natural history and discusses a number of features common to … [Read more…]