Major Philosophical Works by Bacon

• 1857–74, The Works, edited by J. Spedding, R. L. Ellis, and D. D. Heath, 14 vols. London.
• 1861, The Works, edited by J. Spedding, R. L. Ellis, and D. D. Heath, 15 vols. Boston: Taggard and Thompson.
• 1861–74, The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon, edited by J. Spedding, 7 vols. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts.
• 1889–1901, The Works, edited by J. Spedding, R. L. Ellis, and D. D. Heath. Volumes I (1889), II (1887), III (1887), IV (1901), V (1889), VI (1890), VII (1892).
• 1898, Novum Organum or True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature, London and New York.
• 1958, Essays, intr. by O. Smeaton. London and New York.
• 1962, The Advancement of Learning, edited by G. W. Kitchin, London and New York: Dent.
• 1982, Neu Atlantis, transl. by G. Bugge, edited by Jürgen Klein, Stuttgart.
• 1996–, The Oxford Francis Bacon [OFB], General Editors: Graham Rees and Lisa Jardine; Brian Vickers; Oxford University Press. In order of publication: Volume VI (1996), Philosophical Studies c. 1611–c. 1619, edited by G. Rees; Volume IV (2000), The Advancement of Learning, edited by M. Kiernan; Volume XIII (2000), The Instauratio Magna: Last Writings, edited by G. Rees; Volume XV (2000), The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Moralledited by M. Kiernan; Volume XI (2004), The Instauratio Magna: Part II. Novum Organum, edited by G. Rees and M. Wakely; Volume XII (2007), The Instauratio Magna. Part 3, Historia naturalis et experimentalis, Historia ventorum and Historia vitæ & mortis, edited by G. Rees and M. Wakely; Volume VIII (2011), The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seuenth and Other Works of the 1620s, edited by M. Kiernan. (Scholar)
• 2000, A Critical Edition of the Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Selected Works on Bacon

• Anderson, F. H., 1948, The Philosophy of Francis Bacon, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Bierman, J., 1963, “Science and Society in the New Atlantis and other Renaissance Utopias”, PMLA, 78(5): 492–500. (Scholar)
• Blumenberg, H., 1973, Der Prozess der theoretischen Neugierde, Frankfurt am Main. (Scholar)
• Bowen, C. D., 1963 [1993], Francis Bacon. The Temper of a Man, New York: Fordham University Press. First edition 1963, Boston: Little, Brown. (Scholar)
• Brandt, R., 1979, “Francis Bacon, Die Idolenlehre”, in Grundprobleme der großen Philosophen. Philosophie der Neuzeit I, edited by Josef Speck. Göttingen, pp. 9–34. (Scholar)
• Burtt, E. A., 1924 [1932], The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, London. First Edition, April 1924; Second Edition (revised) January 1932; reprinted 1972. (Scholar)
• Cassirer, E., 1922 [reprint 1994], Das Erkenntnisproblem in der Philosophie und Wissenschaft der Neueren Zeit, Darmstadt.
• Clericuzio, A., 2000, Elements, Principles, and Corpuscles, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Scholar)
• Dampier, W. C., 1929 [1948], A History of Science and its relations with Philosophy and Religion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fourth edition, 1948; reprinted with postscript by I. Bernard Cohen 1966. (Scholar)
• Dijksterhuis, E. J., 1969, The Mechanization of the World Picture, Oxford. (Scholar)
• Farrington, B., 1964, The Philosophy of Francis Bacon, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. (Scholar)
• Fischer, K., 1923, Francis Bacon und seine Schule, Entwicklungsgeschichte der Erfahrungsphilosophie, Heidelberg. (Scholar)
• Gaukroger, S., 2001, Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, The Emergence of a Scientific Culture. Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210–1685, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Giglioni, G., 2011, Francesco Bacone, Rome. (Scholar)
• Henry, J., 2002, Knowledge is Power. Francis Bacon and the Method of Science, Cambridge: Icon Books. (Scholar)
• Hesse, M. B., 1964, “Francis Bacon's Philosophy of Science”, in A Critical History of Western Philosophy, edited by D. J. O'Connor, New York: Free Press, pp. 141–52. (Scholar)
• Hill, C., 1965, Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Jardine, L., 1974, Francis Bacon. Discovery and the Art of Discourse, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Jardine, L. and A. Stewart, 1999, Hostage to Fortune. The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon 1561–1626, London: Victor Gollancz. (Scholar)
• Kargon, R. H., 1966, Atomism in England, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Klein, J., 1984, Radikales Denken in England: Neuzeit, Frankfurt, Berne and New York. (Scholar)
• –––, 1987, Francis Bacon oder die Modernisierung Englands, Hildesheim, Zurich and New York. (Scholar)
• –––, 2003a “Bacon's Quarrel with the Aristotelians”, Zeitsprünge, 7: 19–31. (Scholar)
• –––, 2003b, “Francis Bacon (1561–1626)”, in Metzler Philosophen Lexikon, B. Lutz (ed.), Stuttgart. (Scholar)
• –––, 2003c, “Nachwort”, in Francis Bacon, Neu-Atlantis, Stuttgart, 64–9. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004a, “Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning. An Early Modern Programme for the Revision of the Systems of Disciplines”, in Scholarly Environments. Centres of Learning and Institutional Contexts 1560–1960, edited by Alasdair A. MacDonald and Arend H. Huusen. Leuven, Paris, and Dudley, MA, pp. 65–73. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004b, “Francis Bacons Essays von 1597: Der politische Subtext”, in Against the Grain/Gegenden Strich gelesen. Studies in English and American Literature and Literary Theory. Festschrift für Wolfgang Wicht, Peter Drexler and Rainer Schnoor (eds.), Berlin, pp.201–223. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, “Francis Bacon's Scientia Operativa, The Tradition of the Workshops, and the Secrets of Nature”, in Philosophies of Technology. Francis Bacon and His Contemporaries, Claus Zittel, Gisela Engel, Romano Nanni, and Nicole C. Karafyllis (eds.), Leiden and Boston, pp.21–49. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010, Elisabeth I und ihre Zeit, 2nd ed., Munich. (Scholar)
• Krohn, W., 1987, Francis Bacon, Munich. (Scholar)
• Lange, F. A., 1898, Geschichte des Materialismus, Bd 1. Leipzig. (Scholar)
• Losee, J., 1972, A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Malherbe, M., 1996, “Bacon's Method of Science”, in Peltonen (ed.) 1996, pp. 75–98. (Scholar)
• Martin, J., 1992, Francis Bacon, the State, and the Reform of Natural Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Mathews, N., 1996, Francis Bacon. The History of a Character Assassination, New Haven and London: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
• Matthews, S., 2008, Theology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon, Aldershot: Ashgate. (Scholar)
• Mittelstrass, J., 1960, Neuzeit und Aufklärung. Studien zur Entstehung der neuzeitlichen Wissenschaft und Philosophie, Berlin and New York. (Scholar)
• Peltonen, M. (ed.), 1996, The Cambridge Companion to Bacon, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Peltonen, M., 2007, “Bacon; Francis, Viscount St Alban (1561–1626)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. (Scholar)
• Pérez-Ramos, A., 1988, Francis Bacon's Idea of Science and the Maker's Knowledge Tradition, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Price, B. (ed.), 2002, Francis Bacon's New Atlantis. New Interdisciplinary Essays, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. (Scholar)
• Quinton, A., 1980, Francis Bacon, Oxford, Toronto, and Melbourne: Hill and Wang. (Scholar)
• Rees, G., 1975a,b, “Francis Bacon's Semi-Paracelsian Cosmology”, Ambix, XXII: 82–101; 165–73. (Scholar)
• –––, 1977, “Matter Theory: A Unifying factor in Bacon's Natural Philosophy?”, Ambix, XXIV: 110–25. (Scholar)
• –––, 1980, “Atomism and ‘Subtlety’ in Francis Bacon's Philosophy”, Annals of Science, XXXVII: 549–71. (Scholar)
• –––, 1985, “Quantitative Reasoning in Francis Bacon's Natural Philosophy”, Nouvelle de la republique des lettres: 27–48. (Scholar)
• –––, 1986, “Mathematics in Francis Bacon's Natural Philosophy”, Revue internationale de philosophie, 159(4): 399–426. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, “Bacon's Speculative Philosophy”, in Peltonen (ed.) 1996, pp.121–45. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000, “Francis Bacon (1561–1626)”, in W. Applebaum (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution From Copernicus to Newton, New York and London, pp. 65– 69. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004, “On Francis Bacon's Originality”, ISIH: Intellectual News, 14: 69–73. (Scholar)
• Rees, G. and C. Upton, 1984, Francis Bacon's Natural Philosophy: A New Source. A transcription of manuscript Hardwick 72A with Translation and Commentary (The British Society for the History of Science Monographs, 5), Chalfont St Giles. (Scholar)
• Rossi, P., 1968, Francis Bacon: From Magic to Science, translated by S. Rabinovitch, London: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Schäfer, L., 1993, Das Bacon-Programm. Von der Erkenntnis, Nutzung und Schonung der Natur, Frankfurt am Main. (Scholar)
• Schmidt-Biggemann, W., 1983, Topica Universalis. Eine Modellgeschichte humanistischer und barocker Wissenschaft, Hamburg. (Scholar)
• Sessions, W. A. (ed.), 1990, Francis Bacon's Legacy of Texts, New York: AMS Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, Francis Bacon Revisited, New York and London: Twayne Publishers. (Scholar)
• Urbach, P., 1987, Francis Bacon's Philosophy of Science: An Account and a Reappraisal, La Salle, IL: Open Court. (Scholar)
• Vickers, B., 1968a, Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 1968b, Essential Articles for the Study of Francis Bacon, Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books. (Scholar)
• –––, 1978, Francis Bacon, Harlow: Longman Group. (Scholar)
• Webster, C., 1975, The Great Instauration. Science, Medicine, and Reform 1626–1660, London: Duckworth. (Scholar)
• Zaller, R., 1971, The Parliament of 1621: A Study in Constitutional Conflict, Berkeley CA: University of California Press. (Scholar)
• Zagorin, P., 1999, Francis Bacon, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)

Other Secondary Literature

• Ayer, A. J., 1973, The Central Questions of Philosophy, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. (Scholar)
• Blumenberg, H., 1981, Die Lesbarkeit der Welt, Frankfurt am Main. (Scholar)
• Carnap, R. and W. Stegmüller, 1959, Induktive Logik und Wahrscheinlichkeit, Vienna. (Scholar)
• Cohen, I. B., 1985, Revolution in Science, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press. (Scholar)
• Cohen, J. L., 1970, The Implications of Induction, London: Methuen. (Scholar)
• Curd, M. and J. A. Cover (eds.), 1998, Philosophy of Science. The Central Issues, London and New York: W.W. Norton. (Scholar)
• Dijksterhuis, E. J., 1956, Die Mechanisierung des Weltbildes, Berlin etc. (Scholar)
• Duhem, P., 1904–5, The Aims and Structure of Physical Theory, English translation by Philip P. Wiener, New York, 1954. (Scholar)
• –––, 1998, Ziel und Struktur der physikalischen Theorien, übersetzt von Friedrich Adler, mit einem Vorwort von Ernst Mach, herausgegeben mit einer Einleitung von Lothar Schäfer, Hamburg. (Scholar)
• Foucault, M., 1966 [1970], The Order of Things: The Archaeology of the Human Sciences, London: Tavistock; English translation 1970. (Scholar)
• Gillies, D., 1998, “The Duhem Thesis and the Quine Thesis”, in Curd and Cover 1998, pp. 302–319. (Scholar)
• Godfrey-Smith, P., 2003, Theory and Reality. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Grant, E., 1994, Planets, Stars, & Orbs. The Medieval Cosmos 1200–1687, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Haack, S., 1993, Evidence and Inquiry. Towards Reconstruction in Epistemology, Oxford, UK: Blackwell. (Scholar)
• Hacking, I. (ed.), 1981, Scientific Revolutions, Oxford: Oxford Univerity Press. (Scholar)
• Hempel, C. G., 1966, Philosophy of Natural Science, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall. (Scholar)
• Huggett, N., 2010, Everywhere and Everywhen. Adventures in Physics and Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Hylton, P., 2010, “Willard Van Orman Quine”, in: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2010/entries/quine/>. (Scholar)
• Kocher, P. H., 1953, Science and Religion in Elizabethan England, San Marino, CA: Huntington Library. (Scholar)
• Kuhn, Th. S., 1962, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Lakatos, I., 1970, “Falsificationism and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes”, in Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, edited by I. Lakatos and A. Musgrave. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 91–196. (Scholar)
• –––, 1981, “History of Science and Its Rational reconstructions”, in Hacking (ed.) 1981, pp. 107–27. (Scholar)
• Lambert, K. and G. C. Brittan, 1979 [1987], An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview. Third edition 1987. (Scholar)
• Müller-Jahncke, W. D., 1985, Astrologisch-Magische Theorie in der Heilkunde der Frühen Neuzeit, Stuttgart. (Scholar)
• O'Hear, A., 1995, “Conventionalism”, in Oxford Companion to Philosophy, T. Honderich (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 165. (Scholar)
• Poincaré, H., 1905 [reprint 1952], Science and Hypothesis, translated by W. J. Greenstreet, New York: Dover Publications. (Scholar)
• Popper, K. R., 1969, Logik der Forschung, Tübingen, 3^rd edition. (Scholar)
• Quine, W. V. Q., 1951, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”, The Philosophical Review 60: 20–43. Reprinted in Quine, 1963, From a Logical Point of View, New York: Harper Torchbook, pp. 20–46. (Scholar)
• Rae, A. I. M., 1986 [2000], Quantum physics: Illusion or Reality? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fourth Canto edition, 2000. (Scholar)
• Russell, B., 1948, Human Knowledge. Its Scope and its Limits, London: Allen & Unwin. (Scholar)
• Schäfer, L., 1998, “Duhems Bedeutung für die Entwicklung der Wissenschaftstheorie”, in: Duhem (1998), pp. X–XXXIII. (Scholar)
• Shell, H. R., 2004, “Casting Life, Recasting Experience: Bernard Palissy's Occupation between Maker and Nature”, Configurations, 12(1): 1–40. (Scholar)
• Stegmüller, W., 1973, Probleme und Resultate der Wissenschaftstheorie und Analytischen Philosophie, Band II: Theorie und Erfahrung. Zweiter Halbband. Theorienstruktur und Theoriendynamik, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. (Scholar)
• Swinburne, R. (ed.), 1974, The Justification of Induction, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Von Weizsäcker, C. F. and J. Juilfs, 1958, Physik der Gegenwart, Göttingen. (Scholar)
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• Zinner, E., 1988, Entstehung und Ausbreitung der copernicanischen Lehre, Munich. (Scholar)