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The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England (v.7)

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Title: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England (v.7)

Level: Item

Classmark: Holden Library ZX BAC

Creator(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)

Additional creator(s): Fittler, James (1758-1835) (Other)

Publisher: printed for J. Johnson... [and 23 others] by H. Bryer

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1803

Language: English

Size and medium: 10 volumes

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/352282

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991004350229705181

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Frontispiece portrait engraved by James Fittler.


Contents: v.1: Life of Francis Bacon. Philosophical works: Of the proficience and advancement of learning, divine and moral. Sylva sylvarum; or A natural history in ten centuries (century I-VIII) -- v.2: Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays or counsels civil and moral. Theological works. -- v.3: Works political -- v.4: Law tracts. Maxims of the law. -- v.5: Writings historical. Letters. -- v.6: Letters, continued. Letters, speeches, charges, advices, etc. first pub. by Dr. Birch, in one volume in octavo in 1763. -- v.7: Opera philosophica : Auctoris vita [Gul. Rawley] Instauratio magna. De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum, libri novem. -- v.8: Instaurationis magnae, pars II : Novum organum, sive Indicia vera de interpretatione naturae. Instaurationis magnae pars III: Historia densi et rari; necnon coitionis et expansionis materiae per spatia. Historia gravis et levis. Historia sympathiae et
antipathiae rerum. Historia sulphuris, mercurii, et salis. -- v.9: Historia et inquisito prima de sono et auditu. Articuli quaestionum circa mineralia. Cogitationes de natura rerum. Instaurationis magnae pars IV. Instaurationis magnae, pars V. Opuscula philosophica. Descriptio globi intellectualis. Opera civilia et moralia. Historia regni Henri Septimi. -- v.10: Sermones fideles, sive Interiora rerum. De sapientia veterum. Meditationes sacrae. Epistolae. Index rerum in v. 7, 8, 8, et 10. Index to English part, comprised in the six first volumes.

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