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The Advancement of Learning
Francis Bacon
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. The following passage from The Advancement of Learning was used as the foreword to a popular Cambridge textbook: So that as Tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use in respect it maketh a quick eye, and a body ready to put itself in all positions, so, in the Mathematics the use which is collateral, an intervenient, is no less worthy, than that which is principle and intended.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 18, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781542617468 |
| Publishers | Createspace Independent Publishing Platf |
| Pages | 100 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 5 mm · 145 g |
| Language | English |
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