The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England : in five volumes (v.4)
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Type of record: Book
Title: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England : in five volumes (v.4)
Classmark: Large Early Science 4 1778/BAC
Creator(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
Publisher: Printed for J. Rivington and Sons... [and 10 others]
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1778
Language: English
Size and medium: 5 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/249674
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991015843669705181
Description
Originally collected and revised by Robert Stephens and John Locker, and published after their deaths by Thomas Birch. Corrected by John Gambold; the Latin works revised by William Bowyer.
Vol. 1: [12], xlii, [2], 42, [4], 43-575, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates; v.2: [6], 658 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 3: [8], vi, 7-681, [79] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 4: [2], xx, 54, [4], 55-529, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 5: vii, [1], 604 p.
Contains "Advertisement to the edition printed in 1765."
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents: Philosophical works: Of the proficience and advancement of learning, divine and human. Sylva sylvarum; or, A natural history, in ten centuries. Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: A fragment of the colours of good and evil. Essays or counsels civil and moral. A collection of apophthgems, new and old -- v. 2. Works political. Law tracts: Maxims of the law -- v. 3. Writings historical. Theological works. Letters. Letters, speeches, charges, advices, etc., first published by Dr. Birch in one volume in octavo in 1763 -- v. 4. Opera philosophica: Instavrationis magnæ, pars I-IV -- v. 5. Opera philosophica: Historia densi et rari; necnon coitionis et expansionis materia per spatia. Historia gravis et levis. Historia sympathiæ et antipathia rerum. Historia sylphuris, mercurii, et salis. Historia et inquisitio prima de sono et auditu. Articuli quæstionum circa mineralia. Cogitationes de natura rerum. Instavrationis magnæ, pars V.
Contents: (cont.) Opuscula philosophica. Descripto globi intellectualis. Opera civilia et moralia. Historia regni Henri Septimi. Sermones fideles, sive Interiora rerum. De sapientia veterum. Meditationes sacræ. Epistolæ.
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