La Gran Restauración («Novum Organum»)
by Francis Bacon
En 1620 Francis Bacon estaba en la cumbre de su carrera política. Lord Canciller de Inglaterra publicó ese año La Gran Restauración (Instauratio magna), obra que proponía un ambicioso proyecto de investigación con el fin de conseguir la recuperación del saber y poder sobre la naturaleza que la humanidad había perdido como c onsecuencia del pecado original. De este modo, Bacon ponía fin a la tradicional concepción contemplativa del saber e inauguraba la moderna concepción operacional, tecnológica y colegiada del saber científico, avalada además por la Sagrada Escritura. La presente edición ofrece el conjunto íntegro de la edición de 1620, esto es, los materiales preliminares que presentan el proyecto de la Gran Restauración, junto con la parte segunda de la misma (el Novum Organum o nuevo método que debía producir la ciencia en sustitución del inútil método aristotélico) y la exposición de los principios fundamentales inspiradores de la Historia Natural sobre la que debe aplicarse el nuevo método. La edición se completa con un Apéndice en el que Julian Martin expone las conexiones políticas y la voluntad imperialista del proyecto baconiano.
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Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban KC, son of Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne (Cooke) Bacon, was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific revolution. Bacon was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and Viscount St Alban in 1621.
There are some scholars who believe that Bacon's vision for a Utopian New World in North America was laid out in his novel The New Atlantis, which depicts a mythical island, Bensalem, in the Pacific Ocean west of Peru. He envisioned a land where there would be greater rights for women, the abolishing of slavery, elimination of debtors' prisons, separation of church and state, and freedom of religious and political expression. Francis Bacon played a leading role in creating the British colonies, especially in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Newfoundland.
Thomas Jefferson considered Francis Bacon to be one of the three greatest men who ever lived, "Bacon, Locke and Newton" were "the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception." Francis Bacon's influence can also be seen on a variety of religious and spiritual authors, and on groups that have utilized his writings in their own belief systems.
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