Francis Bacon
1 Masterpiece: Essay; Novum Organum.
2 Novum Organum: most impressive display of Beacon’s intellect. The argument is for the use of inductiveness of reason in scientific study.
3 Beacon suggests the inductive reasoning, i.e, proceeding from the particular to the general , in place of the Aristotelian method , the deductive reasoning ,i.e. proceeding from the general to the particular.
4 Beacon’s essay are famous for their brevity, compactness and powerfulness.
A. 《科学的进步与发展》
The Advancement of Learning : It is a great tract on education.
B. 《新工具》
Novum Organum is a successful treatise written in Latin on methodology.
C. 《散文集》Montaigne is the predecessor of Bacon. The term “essay” was borrowed from Montaigne’s Essais.
