BETWEEN RENAISSANCE AND MODERNITY: BACON’S ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING
BETWEEN RENAISSANCE AND MODERNITY: BACON’S ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING

Summary/Abstract: The Two Bookes of Francis Bacon of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning,published for the first time in 1605, is one of the first works belonging to what is known as modern philosophy. It is the first important work of philosophy of Francis Bacon, written in the form of a letter to King James of England and Scotland and expanded in a Latin edition in 1623, De augmentis scientiarum. About this book one can affirm what Bacon said about the technical inventions of his time: it has “changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world”1. Thus, this first Romanian edition of the Advancement of Learning, artfully and accurately translated by Dana Jalobeanu and Grigore Vida, is truly praiseworthy, by facilitating and revealing to the Romanian reader some of the major transformations of modern thought entailed in Bacon’s philosophy.

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