Francis Bacon’s Natural Philosophy and the Laws of Nature

This book offers a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative account of the natural philosophy and of the conception of the laws of nature by Francis Bacon, one of the leading English reformers of natural science and an inspirer of the Scientific Revolution.

Silvia Manzo is Professor of Early Modern Philosophy at the National University of La Plata (UNLP, Argentina), Director of the Research Centre for Philosophy (CIeFi, UNLP), research scholar of the National Research Council (CONICET, Argentina) and fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Germany). She is author of books, journal articles, book chapters, and translations, and has edited collective volumes, reference books sections, and journal issues on several topics and authors of European late-medieval, Renaissance and early modern philosophy and science, historiography of philosophy, women philosophers, and nineteenth-century Argentinian and European philosophy.