oct 9, 1605 - The Advancement of Learning - Francis Bacon
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It inspired the taxonomic structure of the highly influential Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Denis Diderot, and is credited by Bacon's biographer-essayist Catherine Drinker Bowen with being a pioneering essay in support of empirical philosophy.
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Major Works of Western Theology and Philosophy
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