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‘The Textbook Tradition in Natural Philosophy’, Journal of the History of Ideas 30
(1968) 17–32.
48 Sometimes this view was expressly linked to the Aristotelian doctrine of the four
elements: cf. Alexander on Daniel Sennert, op. cit, p. 36.
49 cf. R.Macciò, ‘A proposito dell’atomismo di Francesco Bacone’, Rivista Critica di
Storia della Filosofia 17 (1962) 188–96; Kargon [4.47]; and especially the erudite
researches of J.Rees, ‘Francis Bacon’s Semiparacelsian Cosmology and the Great
Instoration’, Ambix 22 (1975) 161–73; ‘Atomism and Subtlety in Francis Bacon’s
Philosophy’, Ambix 37 (1981) 27–37. Compare my nuanced criticism of Rees’s
approach in ‘Bacon in the Right Spirit’, Annals of Science 42 (1985) 603–11.
50 Vickers, in Fattori [4.12], 281–314.
51 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (first published 1726; London, Dent, 1970), Part
III, ch. V, pp. 190–205. On the sources of the Academy of Lagado, cf.A. E.Case,
‘Personal and Political: Satire in Gulliver’s Travels’ (1945), in Jonathan Swift, ed.
D.Donoghue (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1971), pp. 335ff. On contemporary
charges of sterility against the new science, cf. M.Hunter, Science and Society in
Restoration England (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981), esp. pp. 188–
93.
52 cf. Lenoble (cited in note 29), pp. 217–77.
53 See, amongst other places, Cohen, An Introduction…(cited in note 13), pp. 4–12,
145–75.
54 Erewhon (first published 1872; London, 1951) ‘The Book of the Machines’,
ch. XXIIII, pp. 142ff. The literature concerning the political and social implications
of the Baconian project is immense; cf. W.Leiss, The Domination of Nature (New
York, Braziller, 1972), pp. 45–71; J.R.Ravetz, ‘Francis Bacon and the Reform of
Philosophy’ (1972), in The Merger of Knowledge with Power. Essays in Critical
Science (London, 1990), pp. 116–36; Timothy Paterson, ‘Bacon’s Myth of
Orpheus. Power as a Goal of Science in Of the Wisdom of the Ancients’,
Interpretation 16 (1989) 429–44. For a different philosophical idiolect, cf.
T.W.Adorno and M.Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, trans. J. Cumming
(first published 1944; New York, Herder and Herder, 1972).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Standard editions
4.1 The Works of Francis Bacon: Latin and English, ed. with introduction and
commentaries by J.Spedding, R.L.Ellis and D.D.Heath (first published London,
1857–74; reprinted Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, Friedrich Frommann, 1961–3). The
philosophical works are in vols 1–5; De Sapientia Veterum, mistakenly considered as
a literary work, is in vol. 6 with the Essays. The remaining volumes (7–14) are
devoted to the literary and professional works, letters and life. This is the standard
edition and, although there is an American counterpart (Boston, 1860–4), its
pagination is generally used.