The Works of Francis Bacon: A Victorian Classic in the History of Science

Isis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 112 (4) ◽  
pp. 717-736
Author(s):  
Lukas M. Verburgt
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals As Novas Ideias no Início dos Tempos Modernos

REVISTA PLURI ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Ricardo Dalla Costa
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Rapid Analysis ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Ideas

Este estudo tem por objetivo analisar alguns pontos da obra Novum Organum, de Francis Bacon, à luz da história da ciência. Três tópicos são inseridos para uma rápida análise das técnicas no final do século XVI e no início do século XVII, como a investigação dos fenômenos naturais, os homens da ciência em torno de Bacon e as técnicas no pensamento baconiano. Como resultado, o estudo ilustrou as novas ideias que permeavam nos homens da ciência no início da modernidade.Palavras-chave: história da Ciência, Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, técnicas, séculos XVI e XVII.AbstractThis study aims to examine some points of Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum, in the light of the history of science. Three topics are inserted for rapid analysis of the technical in the late sixteenth century and early seventeenth century, as the investigation of natural phenomena, men of science around Bacon, and techniques in Baconian thought. As a result, the study illustrated the new ideas that permeated the men of science at the beginning of modernity.Keywords: history of Science, Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, technical, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Wonderful Works of Nature: C.S. Lewis and Reijer Hooykaas on Francis Bacon and the Scientific Revolution

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-209
Author(s):  
Arend Smilde
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
History Of ◽  
Good For

This article examines a disagreement which briefly came to light decades ago, half-posthumously, between two twentieth-century Christian scholars, C.S. Lewis (1898–1963) and Reijer Hooykaas (1906–1994), the first Dutch professor in the history of science, who later succeeded to the chair of Eduard Dijksterhuis in Utrecht. Hooykaas and Lewis diverge in their views of the role traditionally ascribed to the work of Francis Bacon (1561–1626) as a major inspiration for the seventeenth-century scientific revolution. Put briefly, while Bacon is a hero for Hooykaas, he is an antihero for Lewis. Sorting out the extent to which either scholar was right not only results in a fairly clear answer but entails, as a bonus, a fine example of what the history of science as an academic discipline is indeed good for.

Piaget and Garcia's History of Science

1990 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 654-656
Author(s):  
Harry Beilin
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
History Of

‘A disoriented vision of … fact’: Brian Friel, Francis Bacon, and Faith Healer

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-336
Author(s):  
Zosia Kuczyńska
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Faith Healer ◽  
Brian Friel ◽  
History Of ◽  
Composition Process

The Brian Friel Papers at the NLI reveal a long and relatively unexplored history of major and minor influences on Friel's plays. As the archive attests, these influences manifest themselves in ways that range from the superficial to the deeply structural. In this article, I draw on original archival research into the composition process of Friel's genre-defining play Faith Healer (1979) to bring to light a model of influence that operates at the level of artistic practice. Specifically, I examine the extent to which Friel's officially unacknowledged encounter with a book of interviews with painter Francis Bacon influenced the play in terms of character, language, and form. I suggest that Bacon's creative process – incorporating his ideas on the role of the artist, the workings of chance, and the extent to which art does violence to fact – may have had a major influence on both the play's development and on Friel's development as an artist.

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