Francis Bacon: Complete Essays (Dover ed.)

Author: Francis Bacon

ISBN: 9780486454436

Binding: paperback

Section: Essays

Francis Bacon — renowned as a scientist, scholar, and statesman — regarded the world as a puzzle to be solved. Wise, witty, and immensely readable, these short but thought-provoking discourses examine life, death, and everything in between: truth, adversity, love, superstition, health, ambition, fame, and many other timeless topics. In these essays, Bacon effectively applied his scientific approach of observation and interpretation to human behavior.