Francis Bacon wrote essays, philosophy and works on scientific method that helped define early modern arguments about knowledge, evidence and practical inquiry. The Advancement of Learning surveys the branches of knowledge and argues for a systematic renewal of learning, while Novum Organum develops his case for building knowledge from observation and experiment rather than relying only on inherited authorities. New Atlantis imagines an island society organised around research and organised investigation. His Essays are much shorter and more immediately readable, covering subjects such as truth, ambition, friendship, studies and public office in compressed, aphoristic prose. Bacon's writing fits early modern philosophy, history of science, political thought and classic essays, especially for readers interested in how modern ideas of empirical inquiry were argued before experimental science took its later institutional form. Read more Less
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