Secrets of nature: the bacon debates revisited.(Francis Bacon)(Report)

From: Journal of the History of Ideas | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Merchant, Carolyn | Copyright information

Francis Bacon rose to power during a period of social and intellectual upheaval. The colonization of the Americas, the rise of mercantile capitalism, the wars of religion, the revival of ancient learning, and skepticism over medieval philosophy made the early seventeenth century particularly transformative. (1) Brian Vickers's removal of Bacon from this social, economic, and intellectual milieu to focus on ressentiment as an irrational rationale for the criticism of Bacon demeans b...

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