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adeo adhuc aër aëris alia aliis aliquid aliud Aphorism apud aqua Aristotle atque Augmentis autem axiomata Bacon calidi calor calorem cause certe circa corpora corporum Densi et Rari ejus Ellis enim eorum Etenim etiam Exempli gratia exemplum fere flamma fluxus forma fuerit haec heat homines hominum hujusmodi humanae Idola Idola Fori idola theatri illa illis illud Inductive instance Instantiae instantiarum intellectus inter ipsa ipsis ista Itaque licet Logic magis materiae maxime mentis modo motion motum motus natura Natural Philosophy naturalis Neque enim nihil nisi nobis Novum Organum omnia omnino omnis Paracelsus passage philosophy posse possit potest potius primo quae qualia quam quas quia quibus quod rebus rerum revera rursus scientiae scientiarum scilicet sensus similiter sint sive sunt tamen tanquam tantum temporis usus veluti vero Verum videtur δὲ καὶ τὸ
Popular passages
Page 44 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion...
Page 48 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Page 513 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 245 - For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes; and if they would have it otherwise believed, it is mere imposture, as it were in favour towards God; and nothing else but to offer to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie.
Page 381 - Non secus, ac liquida si quando nocte cometae Sanguinei lugubre rubent, aut Sirius ardor, Ille sitim morbosque ferens mortalibus aegris, Nascitur et laevo contristat lumine caelum.
Page 48 - I had rather a great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children as soon as they were born, as the poets speak of Saturn.
Page 122 - As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis 45 ought ever to precede the method of composition. This analysis consists in making experiments and observations, and in drawing general conclusions from them by induction, and admitting of no objections against the conclusions, but such as are taken from experiments, or other certain truths.
Page 259 - Ea vero haec est ; quod fieri non possit, ut recte procedatur in curriculo, ubi ipsa meta non recte posita sit et defixa. Meta autem scientiarum vera et legitima non alia est quam ut dotetur vita humana novis inventis et copiis.
Page 112 - Some of which were then but new discoveries, and others not so generally known and embraced as now they are, with other things appertaining to what hath been called The New Philosophy, which from the times of Galileo at Florence, and Sir Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam) in England, hath been much cultivated in Italy, France, Germany, and other parts abroad, as well as with us in England.
Page 503 - We have also parks, and enclosures of all sorts, of beasts and birds; which we use not only for view or rareness, but likewise for dissections and trials, that thereby may take light what may be wrought upon the body of man.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Bacon's Novum organum Clarendon Press series |
| Author | Francis Bacon |
| Editor | Thomas Fowler |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1889 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Feb 21, 2007 |
| Length | 629 pages |
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