Branching Off. The Early Moderns in Quest for the Unity of Knowledge | Vlad Alexandrescu (ed.)

As Francis Bacon put it on the frontispiece of his Novum Organum, grafting an apocalyptic vision on a research program, multi pertransibunt et multiplex erit scientia. The development of science becomes steadily associated with the end of earthly life, a theme that would resound deeply in Western th...