The New Organon - Softcover

The New Organon (or Novum Organum) lays out the system of logic which became known as the Baconian Method.

Originally written in Latin, this text discusses the various methods of reasoning one may use to come to a sound conclusion. The philosophical debate on the nature of inductive and reductive thinking has seen scholars deem The New Organon to be one of the first writings to signify the Enlightenment period of human development. It would also prove notable for its questioning of antiquity: until this time, Greek thought on logic had gone largely unchallenged.

Perhaps most significantly of all is this work's impact upon the eventual formulation of the scientific method. Although strictly a text of philosophy, it was t he intellectual rigors described by Bacon that were to become a forebear to the intensive development of the sciences in the 17th and 18th centuries. The scientific method, itself dependent on logical examination and re-examination, in many respects stems from a continuation of Bacon's thought.

First published in 1620, it was the symbolic display of a then-modern galleon vessel sailing between the pillars of Hercules which symbolised Bacon's notion that a new threshold of discovery was impending. The ship, en route out of the Mediterranean and into the Atlantic Ocean, would likely be en route to the New World and the boundless promise that awaited.

The New Organon (or Novum Organum) is a historic work by Francis Bacon which lays out the system of logic which became known as the Baconian Method.

Originally written in Latin, this text discusses the various methods of reasoning one may use to come to a sound conclusion. The philosophical debate on the nature of inductive and reductive thinking has seen scholars deem The New Organon to be one of the first writings to signify the Enlightenment period of human development. It would also prove notable for its questioning of antiquity: until this time, Greek thought on logic had gone largely unchallenged.

Perhaps most significantly of all is this work's impact upon the eventual formulation of the scientific method. Although strictly a text of philosophy, it was t he intellectual rigors described by Bacon that were to become a forebear to the intensive development of the sciences in the 17th and 18th centuries. The scientific method, itself dependent on logical examination and re-examination, in many respects stems from a continuation of Bacon's thought.

First published in 1620, it was the symbolic display of a then-modern galleon vessel sailing between the pillars of Hercules which symbolised Bacon's notion that a new threshold of discovery was impending. The ship, en route out of the Mediterranean and into the Atlantic Ocean, would likely be en route to the New World and the boundless promise that awaited.