Histoire Naturelle de Mre Francis Bacon, and L'Atlas Nouveau
Abstract
Francis Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum, and an edited translation of New Atlantis (called, in the translation, Nouvel Atlas), both supplemented by prefaces of the translator and a Life of Bacon that is, probably, the first ever to appear in print. Little is known about the translator, Pierre Amboise, apart from what he says about himself in the preface and the dedicatory letter.
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- Title:
- Histoire naturelle de Mre. Francois Bacon ...
- Alternative Title:
- Histoire naturelle de Messire Francois Bacon.
- Uniform Title:
- Sylva sylvarum. French.
- Alternative Title:
- L' Atlas nouveau.
- Uniform Title:
- New Atlantis. French.
- Author:
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
- Publication / Origin:
- Paris : Antoine de Sommaville [et] André Soubron , 1631.
- Abstract:
- This book contains a version of Francis Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum, and an edited translation of New Atlantis (called, in the translation, Nouvel Atlas), both supplemented by prefaces of the translator and a Life of Bacon that is, probably, the first ever to appear in print. Little is known about the translator, Pierre Amboise, apart from what he says about himself in the preface and the dedicatory letter: he seems to have been a member of the French embassy in London, under Charles d'Aubepine, Marquis de Chateauneuf, who was ambassador in 1629 and 1630. The translator claims to have worked upon Bacon's original manuscripts while in London.
- Size:
- 628 frames.
- Language of material:
- French
- Subjects:
- Science.
- Natural history.
- Medium / Genre:
- Early works to 1800.
- Notes:
- "L'Atlas nouueau": p. 419-567
- Signatures: a⁸ A-2O⁸ 2P⁴
- References to this resource:
- Gibson, R. Bacon, 184.
