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Article: Francis Bacon, the State, and the Reform of Natural Philosophy.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- September 22, 1994
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This revised Cambridge Ph.D. is another example of that distressing trend in modern intellectual history to reduce the large and varied output of some past thinker to a single explanatory base. Julian Martin argues that Bacon's proposals for reforms in law, government, and natural philosophy "shared the same structures, the same technique, and the same technology. They were, after all, products of the same mind" (3). That the same mind could hold radically different ideas, conceived at varying levels of abstraction, and resulting in quite distinct forms of activity, is a possibility withheld from Bacon (or Newton). Modern writers wishing to find an underlying unity in such ...
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