De augmentis scientiarum lib. IX - Bacon, Francis 1561-1626 (Amsterdam Ravelstein, 1662)
Originally 'Of Proficience and Advancement of Learning Divine and Human' was published in 1605, and is written in the form of a letter to King James.
Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author, and pioneer of the scientific method. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.
Bacon has been called the creator of empiricism. His works established and popularized inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method, or simply the Scientific Method. His demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things natural marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, much of which still surrounds conceptions of proper methodology today.
Latin translation originally published in 1623
pages 58, 162, 271 and 369 deal with music
fragment of an earlier print used for the binding (endpapers)
Keywords: 17th Century (1601-1700); Philosophy; Empiricism; Natural science