Cover Francis Bacon

Buy:

book € 28,00
available in 10-15 days
series "Collezione di testi e di studi"
pp. 440, Rilegato, 978-88-15-09941-9
publication year 2004

PAOLO ROSSI

Francis Bacon

From Magic to Science

"Rossi's book is perhaps the most important work on Bacon written in this century" claimed a British scholar in 1988. Originally published in 1957, this classic volume - now available in its definitive edition - is a veritable milestone in the historiography of the origins of modern science. Rossi shows how the ideas of the man considered the father of modern science were firmly rooted in traditional magical and alchemical knowledge. Bacon is a product of Renaissance philosophies and simultaneously rejects them. The text recounts the complexity of the English philosopher's intellectual journey "from magic to science" and highlights both connections and elements of discontinuity with the past. The author emphasises Bacon's notion of a cooperative and public science, that is, a science shaped by the contributions of many individuals and aiming to dominate nature and promote human progress.

Paolo Rossi is professor emeritus at the University of Florence; many of his works have been translated.

Prefazione alla terza edizione
1. Le arti meccaniche, la magia, la scienza
Indice dei nomi e degli argomenti
Prefazione alla seconda edizione
2. La confutazione delle filosofie
Premessa
3. Le favole antiche
4. Logica, retorica e metodo
Abbreviazioni usate nelle note
5. Linguaggio e comunicazione
6. La tradizione retorica e il metodo della scienza

See also

copertina Dottrine del processo civile. Studi storici sulla formazione del diritto processuale civile
copertina Eredi del positivismo. Ricerche sulla filosofia italiana fra '800 e '900
copertina Il pragmatismo
copertina Il laboratorio borghese