TRANSLATION OF THE NOVUM ORGANUM,

AND OF THOUGHTS

ON THE NATURE OF THINGS.

C. Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.

recat. 8.2 6.3/03

THIS Volume contains the TRANSLATIONS; 1st, of the "In-

stauratio Magna," excepting the translation of the first book,

the Treatise De Augmentis Scientiarum:" and, 2dly, of

one of the Posthumous Tracts.

The contents may be exhibited as follows:-

PREFACE.

BOOK II. NOVUM ORGANUM.

Preliminaries

Meditation

Dedication

Preface

Distribution of the Instauratio
Preface to Novum Organum

Preliminaries

Preparation for a Natural and Experimental History

Aphorisms on the Formation of the First History

Catalogue of Particular Histories .

BOOK III. NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HISTORY

Book I.

II.

History of Winds

of Density and Rarity

of Heavy and Light

of Sympathy and Antipathy

of Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt

of Life and Death

BOOK IV. SCALING LADDER of the INTELLECT

BOOK V. ANTICIPATIONS OF THE SECOND PHILOSOPHY

Thoughts on the Nature of Things

BOOK II. NOVUM ORGANUM.

The first edition of this work was published in folio, in

1620, when Lord Bacon was Chancellor. Editions in

12mo. were published in Holland in 1645, 1650, and 1660.

An edition was published in 1779; "Wirceburgi, Apud

Jo. Jac. Stahel: and an edition was published at Oxford

in 1813. No assistance to this, or, as I am aware, to any

part of Lord Bacon's works, has been rendered by the

University of Cambridge.

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