Knowledge is Power

This book intrigued and fascinated me. The British author provides an excellent and accessible summary of the great contributions to science and philosophy that Bacon over the course of his life. His desire to pursue all possible knowledge about the physical world by employing a vast bureaucracy of civil servants was,of course, both overly ambitious and some what misguided. Never-the-less, I can conceive of another soul who did more to advance the development of natural philosophy (later, simply, the sciences).