Instauratio magna Novum Organum

by Sir Francis Bacon

$437,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

London: Joannem Billium, 1620. / First edition, first issue, the Devonshire–Horblit–Garden copy, and one of approximately fifteen copies printed on large paper with the crown watermark. Bacon's Instauratio magna was the plan for the total reconstruction of human knowledge on experimental and inductive foundations, projected in six parts of which only the Novum Organum and the 1623 De Augmentis were completed. Against

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