The Columbus of Literature: Bacon's New World of Sciences

The Columbus of Literature: Bacon's New World of Sciences

Author: W. F. C. Wigston
Category: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN: 9780766187900
Format : Paperback
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing

  

1892. The author's basic premise for this book is that Bacon's art blossomed from a profound philosophy of occult symbolism connected with the Knights Templar, the Knights of St. John, and Rosicrucian orders and carries within it Gnostic doctrines of the extremist antiquity and of absorbing interest. Contents: The Tempest; Bacon's Advancement of Learning, 1640; Father Paul and Father Fulgentio, Franciscan Friars of Venice; Pan, Dionysus or Bacchus, and Perseus (Bacon's Three Fables Illustrating Parabolical Poesy and Stage Plays in the De Augmentis); The Comedy of Errors; Midsummer Night's Dream and Bacon's Thirteenth Deficient of a New World of Sciences or Magia Naturalis; Bacon's New World of Sciences; Title Page Engraving of Advancement of Learning; Ben Jonson's Discoveries or Explorata; Cipher-Continued; Measure for Measure; The Rosicrucians; and Gorhambury and Verulam. See the many other works by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.