Selections from the Works of Lord Bacon, Comprising the Prefaces to the Instauratio Magna and Novum Organum, the Distributio Operis, and the Fifth and Seventh Books De Augmentis Scientiarum. Translated and Illustrated with Notes from the Writings of Locke, Reid, Stewart, Brown, Whately, Mill, Etc. Together with an Appendix of Questions.

Published by James McGlashan, Dublin, 1847

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xxiv, 304 pages. 235x150mm. Original linen backed paper covered boards. Printed at the University Press by M. H. Gill. Text in Latin and English. With the bookseller's ticket of 'Thomas V. Morris, Bookseller & Robe Maker, Angelsea Street, Dublin.' *Sir Thomas William Moffett (1820-1908) Irish scholar and educationalist, was born at Castleknock, County Dublin, he was educated at Trinity College Dublin, where he was a double gold medal winner. In 1849 he became the first professor of logic and metaphysics at the Queen's College Galway and later became president of that university. He was knighted in 1896.* Binding dusty and rubbed at extremities, pencil notes to text, otherwise a very good copy of an uncommon Irish university text. Images and further information available on request.

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Title
Selections from the Works of Lord Bacon, Comprising the Prefaces to the Instauratio Magna and Novum Organum, the Distributio Operis, and the Fifth and Seventh Books De Augmentis Scientiarum. Translated and Illustrated with Notes from the Writings of Locke, Reid, Stewart, Brown, Whately, Mill, Etc. Together with an Appendix of Questions.
Author
Bacon, Francis - Thomas W. Moffett (Editor and Translator).
Publisher
James McGlashan, Dublin
Publication year
1847
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition
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19th Century, Dublin, Irish Education

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