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Francisci Baconi De Verulamio,; Novum Organum, Sive Indicia Vera De Interpretatione Naturę
Francisci Baconi De Verulamio Novum Organum Sive Indicia Vera De Interpretatione Natur Author:Francis Bacon General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1855 Original Publisher: E Typographeo academico Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where... more » you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: I+-IJ-39 EDITOR'S PREFACE. -L HERE are only two complete Translations of the Novum '/ Organon already in existence: the first, that given by Dr. Shaw in his Edition of Bacon's Philosophical Works (3 vols. 4to. London, 1733); the other is to be found in Montagu's ' Edition of Bacon's Works (London, 1831), and was made N by Mr. W. Wood. Dr. Shaw's Edition is extremely rare; Mr. Wood's Translation has been reprinted by Pickering, and is in common use; it also forms, with some corrections, the basis of a Translation published by Bohn. I cannot look on this as anything but a misfortune. Mr. Wood's English is coherent, and reads well; and so long as we read it without referring to the Latin, we believe that, though very obscure, still it must be correct. But the least comparison of the Latin discloses a most extraordinary collection of misapprehensions and mistakes. The worst of these are corrected in Bohn's Edition, but there are radical faults in Mr. Wood's work which lead me to think that it cannot be made the basis of a satisfactory translation. There is also in existence a Translation of the First Book of the Novum Organon. by Mr. Glassford, printed for privatecirculation in Edinburgh in 1844. It is consequently hardly to be met with. It is written in a somewhat disagreeable style; the nomenclature is very peculiar; it is not free from errors ; and it follows the Latin too closely throughout. This is the state of the existing translations. Accordingly, when the Delegates of the Press suggested to me that it would be well to publish the Novum Organo...« less