The Advancement of Learning (Book I)

London, England: MacMillan & Company , Ltd.. Good+. 1892. First Edition Thus; Sixth Printing. Hardcover. Good+: shows moderate wear to the extremities and the dust-darkening to the backstrip (the titles thereon remain bold and clearly legible) ; aformer owner's name printed at the front free endpaper; tanning to the endpapers and the slightest tanning to the text pages due to aging; the binding leans but remains secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. A good reading copy showing moderate wear and minor, unobtrusive cosmetic flaws. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7 x 4.85 x 0.35 inches) . Extensive Notes and Index by F. G. Selby. Crimson cloth over boards with embossed designs at the front panel and black bands and titles at the front panel and backstrip. Language: English. Weight: 6 ounces. First published in 1892; 6th printing (1917). Hardback: No DJ 'as issued'. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) , was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist, and author. The Advancement of Learning or more accurately, The Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human, though perhaps less read than his Essays, has had a remarkable impact on the course of human scientific endeavors and philosopy. It inspired the taxonomic structure of the highly influential Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Denis Diderot, and is credited by Bacon's biographer Catherine Drinker Bowen with being a major pioneering essay in support of empirical philosophy. The following passage from The Advancement of Learning was used as the foreword to a popular Cambridge textbook: "So that as Tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use in respect it maketh a quick eye, and a body ready to put itself in all positions, so, in the Mathematics the use which is collateral, an intervenient, is no less worthy, than that which is principle and intended". ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 151 pages .