Product Description
Contains 58 Essays plus Appendix and 31 titled "The Wisdom of the Ancients; A series of Mythological Fables." 310 pages of the preeminent English philosopher of the 16th century. One of the many volumes of the Black's classical series. ... Read more

Product Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

Product Description
Francis is a remarkable pig who reads classic novels and wants to travel the world, but his fate has been sealed by the Genius Genes Corporation which plans to transplant his brain.Will his friend Lucy be able to save him from his terrible destiny?Illustrated in black and white. ... Read more

Product Description
INTRODUCTION Francis Bacon - Baron Verulam and Viscount St Albans, but not Lord Bacon, as he is sometimes erroneously styled-was born at York House, Strand, the London mansion of his father, January 22, 1561. He was the younger son, by his second wife, of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal from 1558 till his death in 1579-a man of profound legal learning, unswerving devotion to principle, and statesmanlike sagacity. Both Camden and George Buchanan designate him, in common with Sir W. Cecil (Lord Burghley) as "twin pillars of the State." The second wife of the Lord Keeper and the mother of Francis was Anne, daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, who had been the tutor of Edward VI. To his instructions were largely due the culture and piety of the youthful sovereign. His daughters, Katherine, Mildred, and Anne, also trained by their parent, were celebrated as prodigies of learning even in an age when the glamour of Renaissance studies still tempted women to forsake the distaff

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the difficult to read text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org ... Read more

Product Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

Product Description
1931. The secret history of Francis Bacon (our Shakespeare) the son of Queen Elizabeth as revealed by The Sonnets arranged in the correct numerical and chronological order by the author. This book was intended by the author to undermine all the orthodox positions, focus scholarly thought on the problems of the Elizabethan Era, to create a true Shakespeare revival and to vindicate forever the character of the author, Francis Bacon. Inscribed by the author. ... Read more

Product Description
Cassandra, or Divination; Typhon, or a Rebel; The Cyclops, or the Ministers of Terror, Narcissus, or Self-love; Styx, or Leagues; Pan, or Nature; Perseus, or War; Endymion, or a Favorite; The Sister of the Giants, or Fame; Actaeon and Pentheus, or a Curious Man; Orpheus, or Philosophy; Coelum, or Beginnings; Proteus, or Matter; Memnon, or a Youth too Forward; Tithonus, or Satiety; Juno's Suitor, or Baseness; Cupid, or an Atom; Diomedes, or Zeal; Dædalus, or Mechanic; Ericthonius, or Imposture; Deucalion, or Restitution; Nemesis, or the Vicissitude of Things; Achelous, or Battle; Dionysus, or Passions; Atalanta, or Gain; Prometheus, or the State of Man; Scylia and Icarus, or the Middle Way; Sphynx, or Science; Proserpina, or Spirit; Metis, or Counsel; The Sirens, or Pleasures. ... Read more

Product Description
Considered by many the greatest painter since Turner, Francis Bacon lived the life of an outsider in violent times. Sinclair explores the influences of Bacon's childhood in Ireland and his youth in Berlin and Paris, and London in the Depression. He takes this turbulent life through to a wise and witty old age, with its extraordinary refusal of honours, fame and riches. Sinclair has also produced biographies of Jack London and John Ford. ... Read more

Product Description
This work elucidates the values and meanings that can be ascribed to Bacon's work, and discusses criticisms of Bacon by distinguished critics and philosophers. ... Read more

Product Description
Used - Very Good ... Read more

Product Description
This volume of eight new essays by leading scholars provides a stimulating dialogue between a range of critical perspectives. Encompassing the fields of cultural history, history of science, literature, and politics, the collection explores The New Atlantis' complex location within Bacon's oeuvre and its negotiations with cultural debates of the past and present. Often regarded as the apotheosis of Bacon's ideas through its depiction of an advanced “scientific” society, it is also read as a seminal work of science fiction.
... Read more

Product Description
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER IV.Francis Bacon: An Outline Of His Life And Aims." All is not in years to me; somewhat is in hours well spent."—Promus."Yet hath Sir Proteus, for that's his name, Made use and fair advantage of his days; His head uumellow'd, but his judgment ripe." —Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 4.MANY and various opinions have been expressed in modern times concerning Francis Bacon, and the motives and aims supposed to have influenced his course and actions in public capacities. We may safely pass by these phases of his wonderful career, so carefully and devotedly recorded in the calm pages of James Spedding, 1 and will for the present consider the personality and life of Bacon from two different aspects: first, as the poet; secondly, as the most ardent promoter, if not the founder, of a vast secret society, destined to create a complete reformation in learning, science, literature, and religion itself, throughout the whole wide world. In the lively works of Hepworth Dixon, and in scattered episodes in Spedding's Life of Bacon, we get occasional peeps behind the scene. But, in the last named work especially, it appears as if we were not meant to do so. The facts that Bacon in his youth " masked and mummed," and led the revels at Gray's Inn; that throughout his life he was appealed to on all great occasions to write witty speeches for others to deliver at the gorgeous " entertainments " which were the fashion of the day (and in which, doubtless, he took a leading part, in the background); that he and his brother Anthony, who was living with him in 1594,actually removed from their lodgings in Gray's Inn to a house in Bishopsgate Street, in the immediate neighborhood of The Bull Inn, where plays and interludes were acted. These and many such important factors in his p... ... Read more

Product Description
1913. Contains the cipher keys to the following: De Augmentis Scientiarium; L. Digges Poem; Dedicatory Epistle; Peele's the Knight of the Golden Shield; Sylva Sylvarum; New Atlantis; Second Folio. Also included is a description of the alphabets found in the above works, as well as headings in Shakespeare's plays. A section is dedicated to deciphered messages. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Proofs of Who Really Wrote Shakespeare
Elizabeth Gallup was the woman who, 300 years later, in the 19th century,finally managed to de-code the cipher that Bacon hinted at, and inserted into his works,including the plays attributed to Shakespeare. This is a practical work, showing how Bacon used two different type alphabets to tell his story. You can use this book to try your hand at de-coding the First Folios now available on the Net.

The book, originally published in 1913, is not very well organized, with some missing directions and a confusing page numbering, but it is nevertheless a priceless find in a day when people seem now generally to be dismissive of the claims of Bacon's authorship. The other books that give the text of his de-coded story seem to be out of print.He explains there that he is really the son of the "Virgin Queen", Elizabeth, who forbids him to claim the throne after her, and how he has to hide his connection with the theatre altogether--a fascinating story, in his own words. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

My Dad Wrote this book
It took my father about 20 years or so to write this book. When I was four years old I saw him working on it. I did't know what he was doing at thetime but I now know what he was woring on.Francis Bacon this book is foryou! ... Read more

Product Description
How we arrived at a capacity for taking cold, hard looks at the facts ofnature--and whether we ever truly have done so--are questions that continue to engage bothhistorians of science and students of culture. Historians of modern European intellectual historycommonly credit Francis Bacon with laying the groundwork for a mode of study that beginswithout presuppositions, religious or otherwise, the kind of searching we know as research andlong have credited as being "disinterested."

In Objectivity in the Making, Julie Robin Solomon shows how "disinterestedness"became a dominant principle of intellectual modernity by examining Bacon's notion of scientificself-distancing against the background of early modern political ideology, socioeconomicbehavior, and traditions of learning. Solomon places him between two cultures--Jacobeanmonarchical mercantilism and the self-distancing strategies of early-seventeenth-century tradersand travelers. She shows that Bacon--by virtue of his prominent political position within theJacobean court, familiarity with prevailing commercial practices, and humanistic learning--madehis signal contributions to natural philosophy because of where he stood at a critical juncture. ... Read more