Tag: The Tempest
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Francis Bacon’s natural philosophy and medicine
JMS PearceHull, England Lord Bacon was the greatest genius that England, or perhaps any country, ever produced.– Alexander Pope, 1741 The early seventeenth century was a time when natural philosophy, the precursor of modern science, was advanced dramatically by names still famous 300 years later. Philosophy and natural philosophy were intimately bound concepts, both inchoate,…