Science & nature

5 works

The natural world and the methods of inquiry used to understand it.

1605
Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane

Advancement of Learning, The, by Francis Bacon (1605), the original title being ‘Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human.’ This book, received with great favor by the court and by scholars, was…

1620
Novum Organum

Bacon's “new instrument” for the study of nature, published in Latin in 1620 as the second part of his unfinished Great Instauration.

1859
On the Origin of Species

On the Origin of Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life), published on 24 November 1859, is a work of…

1877
The Fixation of Belief

Peirce's account of how we come to settle our opinions, first printed in Popular Science Monthly in November 1877 as the opening paper of his “Illustrations of the Logic of Science”.

1882
Specimen Days

Specimen Days first appeared in 1882 within a volume entitled Specimen Days & Collect, published by Rees Welsh and Company in Philadelphia.