BACON, SIR FRANCIS. Instauratio magna. [10], 172, 181-360, 36, [2] pages, including engraved title by Simon de Passe. Folio, 276x182 mm, late 18th-/early 19th-century .5 black morocco gilt with red morocco lettering piece, moderate wear; tiny rust

BACON, SIR FRANCIS. Instauratio magna. [10], 172, 181-360, 36, [2] pages, including engraved title by Simon de Passe. Folio, 276x182 mm, late 18th-/early 19th-century .5 black morocco gilt with red morocco lettering piece, moderate wear; tiny rust hole through 2A4-2B2 affecting a few letters, otherwise generally quite clean internally. London: John Bill, 1620 E10000-15000 FIRST EDITION, second issue, witherrata list added and colophon reset. "Bacon's major contribution to the development of science lies in his natural philosophy, his philosophy of scientific method, and in his projects for the practicalorganization of science . . . Bacon conceived a new means of acquiringtrue knowledge of the world via observations, experiment and inductivereasoning-that type of logical thinking that ascends from specific facts to the establishment of general laws and principles. Bacon saw this novum organum, or 'new instrument' as the means of bringing about a 'great revolution' (instauratio magna) in thought"- Norman 98 Gibson 103b; Grolier/Horblit 8b; Printing and the Mind of Man 119.