Volume 23, Number 9 · May 27, 1976
Science, Salvation, and the Cabala
By Frances A. Yates
The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine, and Reform 1626-1660
by Charles Webster
Holmes and Meier, 630 pp., $29.50
In a book published in Italian in 1957 and in English translation in 1968 (Francis Bacon: From Magic to Science), Paolo Rossi drew attention to the millennial aspect of Bacon's philosophy. He showed by quotation that Bacon thought of his 'Great Instauration' of learning as an attempt to return to the pure state of Adam before the Fall, when, in close contact with God and nature, he had insight into all truth and power over the created world. This insight and this power were lost by man at the Fall, when sin clouded his perceptions.
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