<<Jim would probably enjoy Chapter 4: "The idols". It concludes:
"Many of the tendencies to which Bacon pointed are, I think,
real threats to science and it is remarkable that he noticed
them, and saw them as faults, at a time when there was so little
science to go on. Bacon's achievement is the more striking when
we see some of the same points advanced in the present day as if
they were novel".>>
Yes, I probably would enjoy this a lot. Thanks for the reference to Peter
Urbach. I don't know the book, but it sounds like the man has at least half a
brain! I've never quarrelled with "the consensus" on the whole of Baconian
thought, only that he shows more prescience than many give him credit for
(reading Bacon himself is simple enough confirmation of this). But it sounds
as if Urbach is mounting a challenge to the whole. I'd like to read it.
Jim