Francis Bacon
Knowledge is power: observe and experiment.
Essays (1st edition, 10 essays) and Sacred Meditations
His first book. The Latin Sacred Meditations contain the parenthesis "ipsa scientia potestas est" (see the misconceptions).
The Advancement of Learning
In English: a survey of the knowledge of his time and of what it lacks. Enlarged Latin version in 1623 (De augmentis scientiarum). Not yet in our corpus.
Novum Organum (New Organon) essential
In Latin, in aphorisms. The title answers Aristotle's Organon: a new "tool" for thinking. Book I: the idols; Book II: induction by tables and exclusions, unfinished. Our French translation of Book II is only unproofread OCR.
Essays (final edition, 58 essays) essential
Short counsels on life, morals and politics: truth, atheism, studies, revenge… Our English text has modernised spelling.
New Atlantis essential
An unfinished tale, published after his death by his secretary William Rawley. An imaginary island organised around an institution of scientists, Salomon's House. Characters do the talking.