Sir Francis Bacon
22 January 1561 - 9 April 1626
An English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author known as the father of Empiricism.
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Essays
187 editions - first published in 1618 Read -
The advancement of learning
65 editions - first published in 1605 Read -
Novum organum
52 editions - first published in 1620 Read -
New Atlantis
39 editions - first published in 1627 Borrow -
Sylva sylvarum
31 editions - first published in 1627 Read -
Historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seventh: opus vere politicum.
20 editions - first published in 1627 Read -
The essays of Francis Bacon
20 editions - first published in 1900 Read -
De sapientia veterum
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Historia vitae et mortis
15 editions - first published in 1623 Read -
De augmentis scientiarum
12 editions - first published in 1624 -
The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England
12 editions - first published in 1765 Read -
The letters and the life of Francis Bacon: including all his occasional works ...
10 editions - first published in 1861 -
Essays, civil and moral
10 editions - first published in 1891 Read -
Works
9 editions - first published in 1825 Read -
The moral and historical works of Lord Bacon: including his Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdomof the ancients, New atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh
9 editions - first published in 1852 Read -
Advancement of learning and Novum organum: With a special introd. by James Edward Creighton.
9 editions - first published in 1899 Read -
Works
9 editions - first published in 1825 Read -
Bacon's History of the reign of King Henry VII
9 editions - first published in 1885 Read -
The advancement of learning and New Atlantis
8 editions - first published in 1906 Read -
The essays or counsels, civil and moral, of Francis Bacon
8 editions - first published in 1883 Read -
The works of Lord Bacon: with an introductory essay and a portrait.
8 editions - first published in 1837 -
Essays, moral, economical, and political
8 editions - first published in 1801 Read -
Selections: With essays by Macaulay & S.R. Gardiner.
7 editions - first published in 1922 Read -
Essays, and Colours of good and evil: With notes and glossarial index by W. Aldis Wright.
7 editions - first published in 1879 Read -
Bacon
6 editions - first published in 1900 Read -
The essayes or counsels civill and morall of Francis Bacon, lord Verulam
6 editions - first published in 1906 Read -
Bacon's Essays and Colours Of Good And Evil: with notes and glossarial index
6 editions - first published in 1868 Read -
History of the reign of King Henry VII: With notes by J. Rawson Lumby.
6 editions - first published in 1881 Read -
Les oevvres morales et politiqves de Messire François Bacon
5 editions - first published in 1633 Read -
Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath
5 editions - first published in 1857 Read -
Historia ventorum
5 editions - first published in 1622 Read -
Advancement of learning ; Novum organum ; New Atlantis
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The essays, or counsels civil and moral and wisdom of the ancients
5 editions - first published in 1845 Read -
An Account Of The Life And Times Of Francis Bacon
4 editions - first published in 2006 -
A harmony of the essays etc
4 editions - first published in 1871 Read -
Of building
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Sylva sylvarum, or, A natural history
4 editions - first published in 1658 -
A Conference Of Pleasure: Composed For Some Festive Occasion About The Year 1592 By Francis Bacon
4 editions - first published in 1870 Read -
Essays, Advancement of learning, New Atlantis and other pieces
4 editions - first published in 1937 Borrow -
Scripta in naturali et universali philosophia
4 editions - first published in 1653 -
Apophthegmes new and old: Collected by the Right Honovrable, Francis, Lo. Vervlam, Viscount St. Alban. London, Printed by H. Barret, and R. Whittaker, 1625.
4 editions - first published in 1625 -
Historia naturalis & experimentalis de ventis, &c
3 editions - first published in 1648 -
Essays and Ancient Fables of Francis Bacon
3 editions - first published in 1932 -
The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His Occasional Works ..
3 editions - first published in 1868 Read -
The essays of Lord Bacon: including his moral and historical works ; with memoir, notes and glossary.
3 editions - first published in 1880 Read -
The promus of formularies and elegancies
3 editions - first published in 1883 -
Advancement of learning, and The new Atlantis
3 editions - first published in 1906 Read -
Nevf livres de la dignité et de l'accroissement des sciences
3 editions - first published in 1632 Read -
Opera omnia, quae extant, philosophica, moralia, politica, historica
3 editions - first published in 1665 -
The wisdom of the ancients: and New Atlantis.
3 editions - first published in 1886 -
Opuscula varia posthuma, philosophica, civilia, et theologica: Nunc primum edita.
3 editions - first published in 1658 -
Selected writings
3 editions - first published in 1955 Borrow -
The essays, or councils, civil and moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban
3 editions - first published in 1696 -
Essayes, Religious meditations, Places of perswasion & disswasion
3 editions - first published in 1924 -
The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay
2 editions - first published in 1838 Read -
Thoughts on the Nature of Things
2 editions - first published in 1997 -
Selected Philosophical Works (Bacon) (Hackett Publishing Co.)
2 editions - first published in 1999 -
Francis Bacon Essays
2 editions - first published in 1972 -
Meditations Sacrae and Human Philosophy
2 editions - first published in 1997 -
The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England: Lord Chancellor of ..
2 editions - first published in 1826 Read -
Of the advancement and proficience of learning: or, The partitions of sciences : IX bookes
2 editions - first published in 1640 -
Of Great Place
2 editions - first published in 1912 -
FrancisBacon's natural philosophy: a new source : a transcription of manuscript Hardwick 72 A
2 editions - first published in 1984 -
On the Interpretation of Nature
2 editions - first published in 1997 -
Selected essays of Francis Bacon
2 editions - first published in 1948 -
The Letters And The Life Of Francis Bacon V7: Including All His Occasional Works
2 editions - first published in 2007 -
Valerius Terminus: Of The Interpretation Of Nature
2 editions - first published in 2004 -
On Gardens: Two Essays
2 editions - first published in 2006 -
The Advancement of Learning, Book I
2 editions - first published in 1904 Read -
History of Life and Death
2 editions - first published in 2003 -
A preface to Bacon: [selections]
2 editions - first published in 1963 -
The New organon: and related writings. Edited, with an introduction, by Fulton H. Anderson.
2 editions - first published in 1960 -
The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:
2 editions - first published in 1826 Read -
The novum organon, or a true guide to the interpretation of nature
2 editions - first published in 1855 -
The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England
2 editions - first published in 1827 Read -
An essay of a king: with an explanation what manner of persons those should be that are to execute the power or ordinance of the king's prerogative
2 editions - first published in 1642 -
The philosophy of Francis Bacon: an essay on its development from 1603 to 1609
2 editions - first published in 1964 -
Gardens & friendship
2 editions - first published in 1910 -
Collection of Apophthegms New and Old
2 editions - first published in 1674 -
The major works
2 editions - first published in 2002 -
Opera Francisci Baronis de Vervlamio ..: Tomvs primvs; qui continet De dignitate & augmentis scientiarum, libros IX ...
2 editions - first published in 1623 -
Francis Bacon's essays
2 editions - first published in 1906 -
Of travel
2 editions - first published in 1912 -
Essais du chevalier Bacon, chancelier d'Angleterre: sur divers sujets de politique & de morale.
2 editions - first published in 1734 Read -
The charge of Sir Francis Bacon touching duells
2 editions - first published in 1968 -
Bacon's essays and Wisdom of the ancients
2 editions - first published in 1884 Read -
Several letters written by this honourable author to Queen Elizabeth, King James, divers Lords, and others
2 editions - first published in 1671 -
Opervm moralivm et civilivm tomus: Qui continet Historiam regni Henrici Septimi, regis Angliae. Sermones fideles, sive Interiora rerum. Tractatum de sapientia veterum. Dialogum de bello sacro. Et Novam Atlantidem. Ab ipso honoratissimo auctore, praeterquam in paucis, latinitate donatus.
2 editions - first published in 1638 -
The works of Lord Bacon, moral and historical: including his Essays, civil and moral, Apophthegms, Advancement of learning, Wisdom of the ancients, New Atlantis, Julius Caesar, Life of Henry VII., Queen Elizabeth, etc., with a brief memoir of the author.
2 editions - first published in 1877 -
A confession of faith
2 editions - first published in 1641 -
Essaies: Religious meditations. Places of perswasion and disswasion. Seene and allowed.
2 editions - first published in 1598 -
A true and historical relation of the poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury: with the severall arraignments and speeches of those that were executed thereupon : also, all the passages concerning the divorce between Robert, late Earle of Essex, and the Lady Frances Howard : with King James's and other large speeches
2 editions - first published in 1651 -
The novum organon: or, A true guide to the interpretation of nature. A new translation by G.W. Kitchin.
2 editions - first published in 1855 Read -
Lord Bacon's Essays, or counsels moral and civil
2 editions - first published in 1720 -
Collotype facsimile & type transcript of an Elizabethan manuscript preserved at Alnwick castle, Northumberland
2 editions - first published in 1904 Read -
Of custom and education
2 editions - first published in 1911 -
Baconiana
2 editions - first published in 1679 -
Instauratio magna
2 editions - first published in 1980 -
De avgmentis scientiarvm, lib. IX
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Verulamiana
2 editions - first published in 1803 Read
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Alternative names
- Francis Bacon
- Bacon, Francis Viscount St. Albans
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