January 15 - Other approaches: The Two Books, Universal Harmony
Section outline
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Assigned reading:
The Two Books of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and human (1605), 31.
Pierre Duhem, "Letter to Father Bulliot, on science and religion (1911)," in Essays in History and Philosophy of Science (1996), 157-162.
John C. Briggs, "Bacon's science and religion," The Cambridge Companion to Bacon, ed. Markku Peltonen (1996), 172-199.
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