Essays, Civil and Moral & The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon; Aeropagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton; Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne
Автор:Francis Bacon Год: 2010 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 354 ISBN: 9781616400538 Author name not noted above: Sir Thomas Browne Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume III features: • Essays or Counsels--Civil and Moral and The New Atlantis, by English scientist and philosopher SIR FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626), the former the foundational writings of his development of the scientific method, and the latter his utopian novel that influenced British notions of science as a noble endeavor. • Areopagitica and Tractate on Education, by English poet JOHN MILTON (1608-1674), respectively his...
