All links verified on or after March 9, 2017
List of Works
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).
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).
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).
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).
Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1405-1471)St. Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510)Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1469-1536)Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529)Sir Thomas More (c. 1478-1535)Martin Luther (1483-1546)St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)François Rabelais (c. 1495-1553)John Calvin (1509-1564)St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)Sir Thomas Hoby (1530-1566)Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
William Gilbert (1540-1603)St. John of the Cross (1542-1591)Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)(The Book of Common Prayer) (1549)Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)Richard Hooker (c. 1553-1600)Jacobus Arminius (1560-1609)Francis Bacon (1561-1626)Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)William Shakespeare (1564-1616)Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)John Donne (1572-1631)William Harvey (1578-1657)Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584-1645)Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)Izaak Walton (1593-1683)Rene Descartes (1596-1650)