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XVII. Of the Methods of delivering Knowledge
(1) For the method of tradition, I see it hath moved a controversy in our time. But as in civil ...
XVI. Transmission of Knowledge
(1) There remaineth the fourth kind of rational knowledge, which is transitive, concerning the ex...
XV. Of the Preservation of Knowledge
(1) The custody or retaining of knowledge is either in writing or memory; whereof writing hath tw...
XIV. Of Judgment
(1) Now we pass unto the arts of judgment, which handle the natures of proofs and demonstrations,...
XIII. Of Invention
(1) Invention is of two kinds much differing—the one of arts and sciences, and the other of speec...
XII. Division of Knowledge into Intellectual and Moral
(1) The knowledge which respecteth the faculties of the mind of man is of two kinds—the one respe...
XI. Human Philosophy as it concerns the Mind
(1) For human knowledge which concerns the mind, it hath two parts; the one that inquireth of the...
X. Of Arts concerning the Body
(1) The knowledge that concerneth man’s body is divided as the good of man’s body is divided, unt...
IX. Human Philosophy, or the Knowledge of Ourselves
(1) We come therefore now to that knowledge whereunto the ancient oracle directeth us, which is t...
VIII. Of Mathematics, Pure and Mixed
(1) Nevertheless, there remaineth yet another part of natural philosophy, which is commonly made ...
VII. Of Natural Philosophy, Physical and Metaphysical
(1) Leaving therefore divine philosophy or natural theology (not divinity or inspired theology, w...
VI. Of Divine Philosophy
(1) This science being therefore first placed as a common parent like unto Berecynthia, which had...
V. Knowledge divided first into Divinity and Philosophy
(1) The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above, and some springing from be...
IV. Poetry
(1) Poesy is a part of learning in measure of words, for the most part restrained, but in all oth...
III. Ecclesiastical History
(1) History ecclesiastical receiveth the same divisions with history civil: but further in the pr...
II. Of Civil History
(1) For civil history, it is of three kinds; not unfitly to be compared with the three kinds of p...
I. Triple Distribution of Human Learning. Of Natural History
(1) The parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of man’s understanding, which i...
The Advancement of Learning commended to the care of Kings
To the King. (1) It might seem to have more convenience, though it come often otherwise to pass ...
VIII. Excellencies of Learning enumerated
(1) To proceed now from imperial and military virtue to moral and private virtue; first, it is an...
VII. Human Proofs
(1) As for human proofs, it is so large a field, as in a discourse of this nature and brevity it ...