The historie of life and death : With observations naturall and experimentall for the prolonging of life. Written by the Right Honorable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount S. Alban.
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
- Date:
- 1638
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About this work
Also known as
Historia vitae et mortis. English
Historia vitae et mortis.
Publication/Creation
London : Printed by I. Okes, for Humphrey Mosley, at the Princes Armes in Pauls Church-Yard, 1638.
Physical description
14 unnumbered pages, 323 pages, 1 unnumbered page
Notes
Anonymous translation of "Historia vitae et mortis". The foreword to the edition printed later the same year by John Haviland calls this translation "lame, and defective, in the whole".
The second section of part 3 of Bacon's projected "Instauration magna".
With an initial imprimatur leaf and an additional title page, engraved.
Reproduciton of the original in Cambridge University Library.
References note
STC (2nd ed.) 1157.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English Books, 1475-1640 ; 619:02) s1999 miun s