Of the advancement and proficience of learning; or, The partitions of sciences· Nine books. Written in Latin by the most eminent, illustrious, and famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, Vicount St. Alban, Councellor of Estate, and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Watts.

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Title: Of the advancement and proficience of learning; or, The partitions of sciences· Nine books. Written in Latin by the most eminent, illustrious, and famous Lord Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam, Vicount St. Alban, Councellor of Estate, and Lord Chancellor of England. Interpreted by Gilbert Watts.
Author: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Publication: Oxford :: printed by Leon Lichfield printer to the University, for Robert Young and Edward Forrest,; 1640.
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Subject terms: Science -- Methodology -- Early works to 1800.; Logic -- Early works to 1800.
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APHORISME XLIII.

Above all it most imports the Certainty of Lawes, that Courts of Equity doe not so swell and overflow their banks, as under pretense of mitigating the Rigor of Lawes, they doe dis∣sect or relaxe the strength and sinewes thereof, by drawing all to Arbitrement.