Beschreibung:

285 p. Hardcover.

Bemerkung:

Good copy with rubbed and bumped dust jacket. The pages are browned but clean. Gutes Exemplar mit beriebenem und bestoßenem Schutzumschlag. Die Seiten sind gebräunt, aber sauber. - INTRODUCTION I - - I NATURE ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE - - II THE TIMAEIC TRADITION - - IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY - - Cosmology and Rhetoric - - Persuasion and Ornament - - Nature and Concealment in Courtly Gesture - - III ADVANCEMENTS AND REFORMULATIONS - - Baconian Nature - Bacon and Rhetoric - - IV CONTRASTING AND ANTECEDENT - - TRADITIONS - - The Phaedrus and the Rhetoric - - Agricola and Ramus - - V THE ESSAYS - - POSTSCRIPT: THE NEW SCIENCES AND - - BACON'S TRIAL - - Notes - - Index .