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The Philosophy of Francis Bacon in Early Jacobean Oxford, with an Edition of an Unknown Manuscript of the Valerius Terminus (2013)

Serjeantson, Richard (Author)

Historical Journal
Volume: 56
Pages: 1087--1106
Publication date: 2013
Language: English

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Primary literature (historical sources) Students Natural philosophy Manuscripts Philosophy of science 17th century Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam Leigh, Edmund Oxford University

At some point in or shortly after 1607, the opening passage of Francis Bacon's earliest surviving philosophical work, Valerius Terminus of the interpretation of nature -- the first version of what ultimately became Bacon's Instauratio magna -- was copied into the natural philosophical notebook of Edmund Leigh (c. 1585--1658), a Bachelor of Arts at Brasenose College, Oxford. Whereas contemporary scribal copies of Bacon's political, religious, and legal writings are common, copies of his unpublished philosophical writings are rare, and tend only to be found in unique exemplars with a direct Baconian association. As such, the Valerius Terminus has hitherto only been known from a single manuscript, with corrections in Bacon's hand, that was first printed in 1734. The discovery of a `user' copy in a student notebook is therefore significant for what it suggests about the circulation of Bacon's earliest philosophical ideas. This significance is enhanced by the fact that the new copy appears to record an early draft of Bacon's work.

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Description An early draft of Bacon's text, copied by a student around 1607.

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