Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Bacon is also a candidate for authorship of the plays of William Shakespeare
All links verified on or after March 9, 2017
List of Works
[Advancement of Learning]
[Essays]
[New Atlantis]
[Novum Organum]
Advancement of Learning (1623?) [GBWW,HTR]
- HTML (Two pages, 131 KB & 342 KB) at Renascence Editions
- HTML (509 KB; 185 KB zipped; plain text also available) at Project Gutenberg
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- Paperback edition (Kessinger, 1997).
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Essays (1601) [HTR,HC]
- HTML (Multi-page, indexed) at Bartleby.com
- Text file (312 KB; 122 KB zipped) at Project Gutenberg
- Finnish Text file (171 KB; 67 KB zipped; may be abridged) at Project Gutenberg
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- Paperback edition (Kessinger Publishing, 1992, 184 pg).
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New Atlantis (1626) [GBWW,HTR,HC]
- HTML (Single page, 102 KB) at Sir Francis Bacon's New Advancement of Learning
- HTML (107 KB; 40 KB zipped; plain text also available) at Project Gutenberg
- Spanish RTF (direct link) at Diccionario Teológico Mercabá (Translator Unknown)
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- Paperback edition (Kessinger, 1997).
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Novum Organum (1620) [GBWW,HTR,HC]
- HTML (Single page, Preface and some aphorisms, 157 KB) at the Hanover Historical Texts Project (Translated by Basil Montague)
- Latin HTML (8 pages, indexed) at The Classics Page at Ad Fontes Academy
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- Paperback edition, translated by Peter Urbach and John Gibson (Open Court Publishing Company, 1994, 364 pg).
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