Francis Bacon introduced his contemporaries to a new way of investigating nature.
He called it “natural and experimental history.
” Despite its rather traditional name, Bacon’s natural and experimental history was a new discipline: it comprised new ideas, new practices and new models of collaborative research.
This new discipline was, in many ways, a surprisingly successful project.
It provided early modern naturalists with tools, methods and models for both investigating nature and writing about their subject.
It also offered a set of norms and values for guiding research.
And yet, this new discipline was not a science of nature -- it was more like an art.
This book aims to trace the emergence, evolution and reception of Francis Bacon’s art of experimental natural history.
| Discipline | It comprised new ideas new practices and new models of collaborative research |
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Zeta Books The art of experimental natural history: francis bacon in context | dana jalobeanu
