18 books like The works of Francis Bacon

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Gli eroici furori Giordano Bruno · 1887 · 136p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Shares Renaissance Philosophy, Ethics, Early works to 1800, Philosophy with this book.

The idea of nature R. G. Collingwood · 1800 · 183p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The book propounds Collingwood's theory of philosophical method applied to the problem of the philosophy of nature. The book is divided into four major sections: Introduction, Greek Cosmology, The Renaissance View of Nature, and the Modern View of Nature. Shares Philosophy of nature, Science, Philosophy

Memorabilia Xenophon · 1650 · ★ 4.0 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares Philosophers, Early works to 1800, Philosophy, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Lives Plutarch · 1564 · ★ 4.0 · 732p · ≈ 24h · Demanding Character studies comparing statesmen and generals of pre-Christian Greece and Rome. Shares Philosophers, Ethics, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Longitude Dava Sobel · 1995 · ★ 4.3 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude,… Shares Science, Biography & Memoir

Essays Francis Bacon · 1618 · ★ 3.8 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "Bacon's Essays have attracted an eager readership since their publication in 1625. They sum up a lifetime's observations on the whole range of human activity, by one of the keenest minds of the Renaissance. In their third and final revision Bacon designed the Essays to fill some of the gaps he had diagnosed in the study of mankind, such as the formative influences on individual behaviour of… Shares Renaissance Philosophy, Methodology, Early works to 1800, Science

Meine Weltansicht Erwin Schrödinger · 1951 · ★ 3.8 · 109p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Shares Philosophy of nature, Science, Philosophy with this book.

Self-knowledge John Mason · 1745 · ★ 3.8 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Challenging published 1813. covered in brown (leather or paper?) Hardbound, abt 51/2 by 31/2" written in old fashioned type; f's look like s's Shares Ethics, Conduct of life, Early works to 1800

La Poetica Aristotle · 1479 · ★ 3.8 · 445p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Few, if any, writers in history have made major contributions to as many fields of knowledge as Aristotle... 'If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization,' writes Hugh Lawson-Tancred in his wide-ranging Introduction, 'they are articulacy and competition.' In the city-states oratorical competence was an essential asset for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils and even… Shares Philosophers, Ethics, Early works to 1800, Science

De officiis Cicero · 1465 · 423p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares Ethics, Conduct of life, Early works to 1800, Philosophy with this book.

Novum organum Francis Bacon · 1620 · 290p · ≈ 9h · Challenging "When The New Organon appeared in 1620, as part of a six-part programme of scientific inquiry entitled 'The Great Renewal of Learning', Francis Bacon was at the high point of his political career, and his ambitious work was groundbreaking in its attempt to give formal philosophical shape to a new and rapidly emerging experimentally based science. Bacon combines theoretical scientific epistemology… Shares Philosophy of nature, Methodology, Early works to 1800, Science

The common sense of science Jacob Bronowski · 1951 · 154p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Discusses science as a characteristic part of human activity and as an effort to render the world predictable. Shares Science, Philosophy

Oeuvres de Descartes René Descartes · 1842 · 12p · ≈ 24m · Challenging Shares Philosophers, Early works to 1800, Science, Philosophy with this book.

Meditations Marcus Aurelius · 1626 · ★ 4.3 · 214p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Meditations is a collection of personal reflections and notes by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned 161 to 180 AD), offering a profound look into the philosophy of Stoicism. It was never intended for publication, making it a raw and intimate self-help manual for the emperor during his campaigns and rule. The central theme revolves around living a good, rational, and virtuous life in… Shares Ethics, Conduct of life, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Moralia Plutarch · 1500 · ★ 4.0 · 15p · ≈ 30m · Challenging The Moralia of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They provide insights into Roman and Greek life, but often are also timeless observations in their own right. Shares Ethics, Early works to 1800, Science, Philosophy

An introduction to logic and scientific method Morris Raphael Cohen · 1934 · 467p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Shares Methodology, Science, Philosophy with this book.

An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue Francis Hutcheson · 1725 · ★ 5.0 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Challenging "The Inquiry was written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury. It consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities. The first treatise argues that human beings possess a natural internal sense of beauty, whereas the second focuses on the "moral sense" that enables us to… Shares Ethics, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Philosophy and living Olaf Stapledon · 1935 · ★ 3.4 Shares Philosophy with this book.

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