Review:
The level of scholarship on display is deeply impressive; not only has Stewart obviously spent a considerable amount of time in archive and library collections, but he has also provided remarkably detailed commentaries accompanying each work ... a monumental achievement. (James Everest, The British Journal for the History of Science)
a major scholarly project ... scholars will be grateful for the vast amount of labour it embodies. (Keith Thomas, London Review of Books)
thorough and systematic ... The editors' conclusions and educated guesses stand as the result of open inquiry, metholodical research and orientation towards the guiding star of this collection: the editors' impressive familiarity with Bacon's known writings. (John C. Briggs, Times Literary Supplement)
Stewart's edition allows an examination of the kind of writing that Bacon developed in his early pieces, which played a role in shaping his natural philosophical work ... the Oxford Francis Bacon I reminds us that Bacon's significance for the history of science may lie as much in the way in which he wrote as in what he wrote. (James Everest, Intellectual History Review)
superbly edited (Markku Peltonen, Renaissance Quarterly)
The level of scholarship on display is deeply impressive; not only has Stewart obviously spent a considerable amount of time in archive and library collections, but he has also provided remarkably detailed commentaries accompanying each work. This edition will be considered definitive until new witnesses are (as they inevitably will be) uncovered. (James Everest, British Journal for the History of Science)
About the Author:
Alan Stewart is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and International Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters in London. He is the author of biographies of Francis Bacon (with Lisa Jardine, 1998), Philip Sidney (2003) and James VI and I (2003), and of Shakespeare's Letters (2008).
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