Thanks to
https://twitter.com/#!/hckGGREN/statuses/133816101162336256 I found the information on the Oxford 2011-11-11/12 conference on "
Francis Bacon’s Arts of Discovery and the Cultivation of the Mind" at
http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Ideas&month=1111
&week=a&msg=cd6XLaMRc2WDIuZtyFhIiw .
(Yes, these days I read (part of) my social media feeds/timelines before I read my mailing lists folders.

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Anyway: these talks might be amongst those of most interest to the members/readers of this forum here:
Quote:Peter Anstey (Otago University)
Bacon, Ramus and the Interpretation of Nature
,
Quote:Per Landgren (Wolfson College)
Notiones Primae, Historiae Particulares et Inductio: Francis Bacon and the
Aristotelian Concept of Historia
,
Quote:Dana Jalobeanu (University of Bucharest)
The Hunt of Pan: Exploratory Experimentation and the Rules of Experientia
Literata
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Quote:Rhodri Lewis (St Hugh’s College)
Francis Bacon and Ingenuity
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Quote:Dan Garber (Princeton University)
Bacon, New Atlantis and the Uses of Utopia
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Quote:Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge University)
Interpreting Nature
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Quote:Kathryn Murphy (Oriel College)
Instances and Experiments