BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Works of Francis Bacon, eds. R. L. Ellis, J.
Spedding,
D. D. Heath, 7 vols. (London, 1857-59). The
Letters and
Life of Francis Bacon, Including All His Occasional
Works,
ed. J. Spedding, 7 vols. (London, 1861-74). Among
the
bibliographical works: R. W. Gibson, Francis
Bacon, A
Bibliography of his Works and of Baconiana to the
Year
1750 (Oxford, 1950). For the period 1800-1956: P.
Rossi,
“Per una bibliografia degli
scritti su Bacone,” Rivista
critica
di storia della filosofia,
12, 1 (1957), 75-89. The best biogra-
phy is by M. Sturt, Francis
Bacon: A Biography (London,
1932). Also useful is the
commentary of Th. Fowler on the
Novum Organum (London, 1878). Outlines of the
influence
of Bacon: G. Sortais, La Philosophie
moderne depuis Bacon
jusqu'à Leibniz (Paris,
1922). On the Rhetoric, Science of
Man, style, and prose of Bacon: K.
R. Wallace, Francis Bacon
on Communication and
Rhetoric (Chapel Hill, 1943); Francis
Bacon
on the Nature of Man (Urbana, Ill., 1967); B. Vickers,
Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose (Cambridge,
1968);
W. S. Howell, Logic and Rhetoric in England:
1500-1700
(Princeton, 1956). Two quick sketches are very
significant:
P.-M. Schuhl, La Pensée de
Bacon (Paris, 1949), and B.
Farrington, Francis Bacon, Philosopher of Industrial Science
(New York,
1949). On the first period of Bacon's activities:
B. Farrington, The Philosophy of Francis Bacon: An Essay
of its
Development from 1603 to 1609 (Liverpool, 1964). The
best
study on Baconian logic is that of T. Kotarbinsky, “The
Development of the Main Problem in the Methodology of
Francis
Bacon,” Studia Philosophica (1935).
Among the
recent works on the whole of Bacon's philosophy: F.
Anderson, The Philosophy of Francis Bacon (Chicago,
1948);
P. Rossi, Francis Bacon: From Magic to
Science (London and
Chicago, 1967). On the idea of progress and
value of tech-
nology: P. Rossi, Philosophy, Technology and the Arts: in
the Early
Modern Era (New York, 1970). On the Encyclo-
pedia: R. McRae, The Problem of
the Unity of Sciences,
Bacon to Kant (Toronto, 1961). On
special aspects: Marie
Boas, “Bacon and Gilbert,”
Journal of the History of Ideas,
12, 3 (1950), 466-67; E. Moody Prior,
“Bacon's Man of
Science,” Journal of the History of Ideas,
15, 3 (1954),
348-70; P. H. Kocher,
“Bacon on the Science of Juris-
prudence,” Journal of the History of
Ideas,
18, 1 (1957),
3-26. On the religious theme: P.
Rossi, “Bacone e la Bibbia,”
Archiwum Historii Filozofii (Warsaw, 1966).
Among the few
works on Bacon's influence: H. Dieckmann, “The
Influence
of Francis Bacon on Diderot's Interprétation de la Nature,”
Romanic Review,
24, 4 (1943), 303-30.
PAOLO ROSSI
[See also
Ancients and Moderns; Crisis; Positivism;
Prag-
matism; Progress;
Renaissance Humanism; Technology;
Work.]
