Francis Bacon: The New Organon (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
by Francis Bacon
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Author: Francis BaconEditor: Lisa Jardine
Editor: Michael Silverthorne
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-03-28
ISBN: 0521564832
Number of pages: 290
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book Review: new translation for new readers
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a very clear and readily assimilated translation of what may be considered the manifesto of the scientific revolution. Translating a seventeenth century Englishman, writing in Latin, back into English: should it be the English he would have written at that time, or is a more ahistorical rendering appropriate? Sometimes I wondered if the translation might be a little too up-to-date in its sensibilities and found myself returning to the Latin original to be assured that Bacon's original intent had been rendered. Although the text is admirably clear a few more footnotes would have been welcome. Those provided are either somewhat cryptic and brief notes of textual readings, or on the other hand, notes on personages that seem to pander too much to the ignorance of today's students - vero media est. Though the second part of Novum Organon seem but little removed from the alchemists den, Bacon's first part is as relevant to the scientific enterprise today as it ever was - modern physicists and geneticists should consider carefully whether, as aphorism LXIV warns, empiricism may be a greater danger than sophistic dogma ever was.
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