Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626 »

In this book Brian Wormald provides a fundamental reappraisal of Francis Bacon.

Acknowledgments;
1. Introduction;
2. Two programmes: know thyself and know the universe of nature;
3. Knowledges are as pyramids, whereof history is the basis - history civil - this latter extended to describe and to include the Common Law of England;
4. Logic - idols of the mind - rhetoric;
5. Policy: a great part of philosophy - Bacon's engagements of policy;
6. Morality and policy I;
7. Morality and policy II;
8. Morality and policy III;
9. Morality and policy IV;
10. Civil history of letters - civil history mixed;
11. Civil history of the reign of King Henry the 7th;
12. Aims and claims - but no metaphysics of nature;
13. No metaphysics of nature - civil history supplies Bacon's masculine birth of time;
14. Bacon and his markers I;
15. Bacon and his markers II; Notes; Index.