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Article: Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought: Essays to Commemorate the Advancement of Learning, 1605-2005.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- September 22, 2006
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Julie Robin Solomon and Catherine Gimelli Martin, eds. Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought: Essays to Commemorate the Advancement of Learning (1605-2005).
Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. x + 258 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $94.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5359-5.
Centenaries are fertile hunting grounds for editors, and it would be surprising for a work as influential as Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning of 1605 to celebrate its four-hundredth birthday without some sort of commemoration. Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought purports to be precisely that. The few ...