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Francis Bacon,
The Great Instauration
Basil Montague, ed. and trans.
Excerpts from The Works, 3 vols. (Philadelphia: Parry & MacMillan, 1854)
Hanover Historical Texts Project
Scanned by Alison Waugh and proofread by Monica Banas in 1996.
Proofread and pages added by Jonathan Perry, March 2001.
Table
of Contents
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Editor's Preface
Epistle Dedicatory to James I
Bacon's Preface
The Distribution of the Work
Preface to the Novum Organum
Aphorisms
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