Notes - Rhetorical Darwinism - page 274

Chapter 2

Epigraph: W. A. Sessions, Francis Bacon Revisited (New York: Twayne, 1996), 26.
1

Benjamin Nelson, “Discussion: Philosophical and Theological Backgrounds,”
in The Nature of Scientific Discovery: A Symposium Commemorating the 500th
Anniversary of the Birth of Nicolas Copernicus , ed. Owen Gingerich (Washing-
ton, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1975), 377.

2 René Descartes, Discourse on the Method of Conducting One's Reason Well and

Seeking the Truth in the Sciences , ed. and trans. George Heffernan (Notre Dame,
Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994), 53-61.

3 William T. Lynch, “A Society of Baconians?: The Collective Development

of Bacon's Method in the Royal Society of London,” in Francis Bacon and
the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought , eds. Julie Robin Solomon and Cath-
erine Gimelli Martin (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2005), 173-202; Antoinette
Mann Paterson, Francis Bacon and Socialized Science (Springfield, Ill.: Charles
C. Thomas, 1973); Lisa Jardine, Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Dis-
course (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974); Mary Hesse, “Francis
Bacon's Philosophy of Science,” in A Critical History of Western Philosophy , ed.
D. J. O'Connor (New York: Macmillan, 1964), 141-52.

4 See Karl R. Wallace, Francis Bacon on Communication and Rhetoric (Chapel

Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1943); Brian Vickers, “Bacon and
Rhetoric,” in The Cambridge Companion to Bacon , ed. Marakku Peltonen (Cam-
bridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 200-231.

5 C. S. Lewis, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama (Oxford:

Clarendon, 1954), 307.

6 Quoted in Vickers, “Bacon and Rhetoric,” 205.

7 Thomas Sprat, The History of the Royal-Society of London for the Improving of

Natural Knowledge (London: 1667).

8 Michel Malherbe, “Bacon's Method of Science,” in The Cambridge Companion

to Bacon , ed. Marakku Peltonen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1996), 75-98; William T. Lynch, “A Society of Baconians?: The Collective
Development of Bacon's Methods in the Royal Society of London,” in Francis
Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought : Essays to Commemorate the
Advancement of Learning (1605-2005) , eds. Julie Robin Solomon and Catherine
Gimelli Martin (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2006), 173-202.

9 Sprat, History of the Royal Society , 35-36.

10 Sprat, History of the Royal Society , 35.

11 Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon , eds. James Spedding, Robert Leslie