Of Empire

Authors: Bacon, Francis
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: PHI035000, PHI019000, HIS037090
ISBN: 9781101651131, Related ISBNs: 0143037560, 110165113X, 9780143037569, 9781101651131
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 112,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Francis Bacon’s landmark writings on subjects ranging from anger and ambition, marriage and money, to envy and empire established him as the founding father of modern scientific thinking, with his rejection of superstition and his emphasis on proof and experiment, rational enquiry and reasoned argument.

Writings include: 

• Of Revenge
• Of Parents and Children
• Of Envy
• Of Love
• Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
• Of Cunning
• Of Beauty
• Of Negotiating
• Of Anger
• And many more
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