Bacon surveys the whole of human knowledge, diagnosing its defects and urging an empirical advance of learning.
Books that mention The Advancement of Learning (6)
The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie & J. Berg Esenwein: “of the power of God, the difference of nature, and the use of man. --LORD BACON, _The Advancement of Learning_.”
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville: “In the title-page of the original edition of the "Advancement of Learning" you will find some curious whales.”
Kipps by H. G. Wells: “bought (and even thought of reading) a Shakespeare and a Bacon's "Advancement of Learning" and the poems of Herrick”
Novum Organum by Francis Bacon: “we can refer to the evidence of our published writings (especially our books on the Advancement of Learning).”
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams: “though one should have known the "Advancement of Science" as well as one knew the "Comedy of Errors," the literary knowledge counted for nothing”
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco: “in what the good Bacon called The Advancement of Learning”