Product Description: Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was a genuine midwife of modernity. He was one of the first thinkers to visualize a future which would be guided by a cooperative science-based vision of bettering human welfare. In this the first critical edition of his greatest philosophical work since the nineteenth-century, we find facing-page Latin translations and a thorough and detailed Introduction to the text...read more

Product Description: Emanuel Swedenborg, Edited by William Ross Woofenden Scientific and Philosophical Treatises was originally published by the Swedenborg Scientific Association in three booklets dated 1905, 1906 and 1908. These contained articles on chemistry, geology, physics, cosmology, anatomy, physiology, psychology and philosophy...read more

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Product Description: A. THE TEXT The main importance of these two treatises lies in the insight they provide into Spinoza's conception of the relation between mathematics and certain disciplines not touched upon elsewhere in his major writings. The mathematics they involve are not the as those of the Ethics however, and the precise connection same between the geometrical order of this work and these excursions into optics and probability is by no means obvious...read more