The "Instauratio Magna"
The Instauratio Magna Part II: Novum Organum and Associated Texts

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was a genuine midwife of modernity. He was one of the first thinkers to visualise a future which would be guided by a cooperative science-based vision of bettering human welfare. In this critical edition of his greatest philosophical work, we find facing-page Latin translations and a detailed introduction to the text.

Volume XI of The Oxford Francis Bacon comprises the first new critical edition of Bacon's most important philosophical work, the Novum Organum, for a hundred years. One of the foundation documents of early-modern philosophy, Novum Organum is edited in accordance with modern textual-critical principles for the first time. Graham Rees presents the only edition ever to include the original Latin text with a brand new, facing-page translation, and a thorough Introduction and detailed commentary of the text. The edition represents a major step towards the reinstatement of Bacon as a central figure in the history of early-modern philosophy, and will be essential reading for anyone studying the history of science and ideas in the seventeenth-century.

INTRODUCTION
The Novum Organum in Context
The Novum Organum and Related Texts
THE TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS
THE COMMENTARIES
APPENDICES