Jerry Weinberger Science, Faith, and Politics: Francis Bacon and the Utopian Roots of the Modern Age: A Commentary on Bacon's "Advancement of Learning". Cornell University Press, 1985. First edition. 0801418178 342 pages. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black cloth, with gilt-lettered black spine label. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. "Jerry Weinberger here seeks to establish Francis Bacon's rightful place among the founders--with Machiavelli and Hobbes--of the modern political tradition, claiming that Bacon's view of the sources of the modern age has great resonance for the problems of our contemporary scientific society".