Francis Bacon on Motion and Power

1 Introduction: Francis Bacon and the Theologico-Political Reconfiguration of Desire in the Early Modern Period.- 2  Appetites, Matter and Metaphors: Aristotle, Physics I, 9 (192a22-23) and Its Renaissance Commentators.- 3 Lists of Motions: Francis Bacon on Material Disquietude.- 4 Bacon's Apples: A Case Study in Baconian Experimentation.- 5 Prolongatio Vitae and Euthanasia in Francis Bacon.- 6 Francis Bacon's Flux of the Spirits and Renaissance Paradigms of Hybridity and Adaptation.- 7 Cupido, sive Atomus; Dionysus, sive Cupiditas: Francis Bacon on Desire.- 8 The Ethics of Motion: Self-Preservation, Preservation of the Whole and the 'Double Nature of the Good' in Francis Bacon.- 9 Francis Bacon on the Motions of the Mind.- 10 Francis Bacon on the Moral and Political Character of the Universe.- 11 A More Perfect Union: Bacon's Correspondence of Form and Policy.- 12 Bacon's Idola in Vernacular Translations: 1600-1900.

Guido Giglioni is the Cassamarca Lecturer in Neo-Latin Cultural and Intellectual History at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London. He has published on Jan Baptiste van Helmont (Immaginazione e malattia, Milan 2000) and Francis Bacon (Francesco Bacone, Rome 2011), and edited a volume on Francis Glisson's manuscript papers (Cambridge 1996). He has written a number of articles on Renaissance philosophy and medicine, on such authors as Marsilio Ficino, Girolamo Cardano and Tommaso Campanella. He is currently working on Francis Bacon's philosophy (ERC Starting Grant 'Francis Bacon and the Medicine of the Mind').

James A.T. Lancaster is an intellectual historian, who received his PhD from the Warburg Institute in London. He is currently a Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, where he is in the process of writing a book on the interrelation of religion and the natural world in the thought of Francis Bacon. In addition, as a board member of the Oxford Francis Bacon (OFB), James has been responsible for compiling the most comprehensive bibliography to date of both editions of the works of, and secondary sources on, Francis Bacon. His publications include: 'The Semantic Structure of Evolutionary Biology as an Argument Against Intelligent Design' in Zygon: The Journal of Religion and Science; 'Natural Knowledge as a Propaedeutic to Self-Betterment: Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Natural History' in Early Science and Medicine; and 'Natural Histories of Religion: A (Baconian) "Science"?' in Perspectives on Science.

Sorana Corneanu is Associate Professor of English (English Department) and researcher in early modern studies (Foundations of Modern Thought Research Centre) at the University of Bucharest. She is the book review editor of the Journal of Early Modern Studies (Zeta Books). In addition to articles on early modern philosophy, literature and intellectual

"Francis Bacon on Motion and Power gathers twelve contributions by the best specialists of Baconian thought in Europe, the United States, and South America in a very unified manner. ... As Giglioni underlines in a very concise and striking sentence, Bacon offers a "critique of impure reason". It is no small merit of this volume that it helps us grasp the originality and specificity of one of the major thinkers of early modernity." (Claire Crignon, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 56 (03), July, 2018)