Publisher's Synopsis
An account of Francis Bacon's (1561-1626) conception of natural inquiry, placing Bacon in an epistemological tradition which postulates an intimate relation between objects of cognition and objects of construction, and regards the human knower as, fundamentally, a maker.;He explores the background of this tradition and the ways in which major philosophers of the seventeenth century reacted to it in order to contrast their responses with Bacon's own.;The overall result promotes the view that Bacon was the founding father of modern philosophy of science.
