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- Preface
- Introduction
- I. Nature According to Scripture
- II. The Timaeic Tradition in the Sixteenth Century
- Cosmology and Rhetoric
- Persuasion and Ornament
- Nature and Concealment in Courtly Gesture
- III. Advancements and Reformulations
- Baconian Nature
- Bacon and Rhetoric
- IV. Contrasting and Antecedent Traditions
- The Phaedrus and the Rhetoric
- Agricola and Ramus
- V. The Essays
- Postscript: The New Sciences and Bacon’s Trial
- Notes
- Index
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