PREFACE. 



THIS Volume contains the TRANSLATIONS; 1st, of the&quot; In- 

 stauratio Magna,&quot; excepting the translation of the first book, 

 the Treatise &quot; De Augmentis Scientiarum :&quot; and, 2dly, of 

 one of the Posthumous Tracts. 



The contents may be exhibited as follows : 



Page 

 BOOK II. NOVUM ORGANUM p. 1 to 213 



Preliminaries 



Meditation *. . -1 



Dedication -* . . 3 



Preface 5 



Distribution of the Instauratio 14 



Preface to Novum Organurn 27 



BOOK 1 31 



II 91 



Preparation for a Natural and Experimental History 213 



Aphorisms on the Formation of the First History 217 



Catalogue of Particular Histories 227 



BOOK III. NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HISTORY 234 



Preliminaries 234 to 240 



History of Winds 241 



of Density and Rarity 301 



of Heavy and Light 303 



of Sympathy and Antipathy 303 



of Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt 304 



of Life and Death 309 



BOOK IV. SCALING LADDER OF THE INTELLECT 424 



BOOK V. ANTICIPATIONS OF THE SECOND PHILOSOPHY 428 



Thoughts on the Nature of Things 431 



BOOK II. NOVUM ORGANUM. 



The first edition of this work was published in folio, in 

 1620, when Lord Bacon was Chancellor. Editions in 

 12mo. were published in Holland in 1645, 1650, and 1660. 

 An edition was published in 1779; &quot;Wirceburgi, Apud 

 Jo. Jac. Stahel : and an edition was published at Oxford 

 in 1813. No assistance to this, or, as I am aware, to any 

 part of Lord Bacon s works, has been rendered by the 

 University of Cambridge. 



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