The advancement of learning

Description:

The Advancement of Learning (full title: Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human) is a 1605 book by Francis Bacon. It inspired the taxonomic structure of the highly influential Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Denis Diderot, and is credited by Bacon's biographer-essayist Catherine Drinker Bowen with being a pioneering essay in support of empirical philosophy.

subjects: Science,  Methodology,  Logic,  Early works to 1800,  Utopias,  Induction (Logic),  Philosophy,  Learning,  Theory of Knowledge,  Learning and scholarship,  Ouvrages avant 1800,  Sciences,  Méthodologie,  Logique,  Logic, early works to 1800,  Science, methodology,  Knowledge, theory of,  Science, early works to 1800,  Criticism and interpretation

People: Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Times: Early works to 1800