Francis Bacon introduced his contemporaries to a new way of investigating nature.
This book aims to trace the emergence, evolution and reception of Francis Bacon’s art of experimental natural history..
And yet, this new discipline was not a science of nature -- it was more like an art.
It also offered a set of norms and values for guiding research.
It provided early modern naturalists with tools, methods and models for both investigating nature and writing about their subject.
This new discipline was, in many ways, a surprisingly successful project.
He called it “natural and experimental history.” Despite its rather traditional name, Bacon’s natural and experimental history was a new discipline: it comprised new ideas, new practices and new models of collaborative research.
Francis Bacon introduced his contemporaries to a new way of investigating nature
