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The History of Trades has remained unexplored, and in fact forgotten, but there can be no question of its major importance in the minds of such distinguished men as Bacon and Boyle, Petty and Evelyn; and no adequate account of English science or education in the seventeenth century can afford to neglect it. The project was first sketched in The Advancement of Learning and then expanded in the Parasceve appended to the Novum Organum; but in this, as in other cases, there are anticipations of Bacon’s thought in the previous century. In the 1530’s we notice a modification of earlier humanist education. Although virtuous action continues to be the primary end of learning, the strain of practical wisdom and the appeal to reason and experience, both implicit in the humanist position, are given greater emphasis. As a result, the observation of man and nature takes its place in a curriculum hitherto limited mainly to classical reading. This is evident in Rabelais and Vives, and makes possi

The History of Trades has remained unexplored, and in fact forgotten, but there can be no question of its major importance in the minds of such distinguished men as Bacon and Boyle, Petty and Evelyn; and no adequate account of English science or education in the seventeenth century can afford to neglect it. The project was first sketched in The Advancement of Learning and then expanded in the Parasceve appended to the Novum Organum; but in this, as in other cases, there are anticipations of Bacon’s thought in the previous century. In the 1530’s we notice a modification of earlier humanist educ