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What was Bacon’s vision for the purpose of natural philosophy? 

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What was Bacon’s new methodology, and how did it differ from Aristotelian models for the study of nature?
What was Bacon’s vision for the purpose of natural philosophy?
How was his conception of the utility of knowledge, and of nature, grounded in his theology?
Finally, how practical were Bacon’s ideas, and how close are they to the later methodologies of scientific experimentalism?

Further readings are:• Francis Bacon, Selections (Section 8.3, pp. 142-8) in Malcolm Oster, ed., Sciences in Europe 1500-1800: a Primary Sources Reader (Macmillan: 2002).

Extra Reading:
• Sarah Irving, “In a Pure Soil: Francis Bacon’s Empire of Knowledge”, Chapter 1 in Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire, (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008).
• Stephen Gaukroger, Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy, (Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1991).
• Markku Peltonen, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Bacon, (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
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