Stephen A. McKnight

Oct 4, 2023 | thenewatlantis.com | Louise Liebeskind |Stephen A. McKnight |Sam Kahn |Patrick J. Deneen

Francis Bacon has been charged with robbing science of its innocence. But what if we’ve all been reading him wrong? Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Francis Bacon is known, above all, for conceiving of a great and terrible human project: the conquest of nature for “the relief of man’s estate.” This project, still ongoing, has its champions.