Bacon's brotherhood and its classical sources: producing and communicating knowledge in the project of the great instauration

• Autores: Dana Jalobeanu
• Localización: Philosophies of technology: Francis Bacon and his contemporaries / coord. por Claus Zittel, Vol. 1, 2008 (Volume one), ISBN 978 90 04 17050 6, págs. 197-230
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Brotherhood of Light: Solomon's house -- Secrets, knowledge and natural magic: the presentation of New Atlantis and its seventeenth century readers -- The Brotherhood of lights in the project of the great instauration -- Rewriting and refashioning the great instauration in 1622-1626 -- Levels of readers: secret and public knowledge -- Knowledge, wonder, and the seeds of knowledge -- The theory of communicating knowledge in De Augmentis Scientiarum -- Gradual disclosure of secret in New Atlantis -- A Classical source of Bacon's brotherhood: Seneca's epistles and natural questions -- Seneca's model of an ideal community of the Wise -- Natural philosophy, learning and secrets of the Universe -- Selective bibliography