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Around the time Shakespeare inaugurated the gilded age of English drama, the young Francis Bacon proposed to take “all knowledge to be my province”. He soon realized the difficulty of his task, but in the process of his study he posed two related questions which he understood better than any other man of his time: can human beings respect and obey nature, and can they also command nature?

Francis Bacon The DoubleEdged Life of the

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      Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
      Publication Date: 4/30/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780786497270, 978-0786497270
      ISBN10: 0786497270

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      Book Synopsis
      Around the time Shakespeare inaugurated the gilded age of English drama, the young Francis Bacon proposed to take “all knowledge to be my province”. He soon realized the difficulty of his task, but in the process of his study he posed two related questions which he understood better than any other man of his time: can human beings respect and obey nature, and can they also command nature?

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