The Works of Francis Bacon: Novum organum scientiarumM. Jones, 1815 |
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Page 193 - ... not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things...
Page 38 - For example, paper, though a very common thing, is a singular instance of art. For if well observed, artificial matters are either merely wove with direct and transverse threads, as silk, cloth, linen, &c. or made of concreted juices, as brick, clay, glass, enamel, porcelain, and the like, which if well united shine, but if less united, prove hard, but bear no polish. And all these latter substances, made of concreted juices, are brittle, and do not hold tenaciously together. On...
Page 83 - Galileo ; by means whereof, as by boats or little ships of intelligence, a nearer commerce may be opened and carried on with the celestial bodies. For by the help of these glasses, 1. The milky way appears to be a knot or cluster of little stars, perfectly separate and distinct, of which the ancients bad but a bare suspicion.
Page 85 - ... celestial bodies and the size and nature of all distant bodies — from prepossession by another object; as one powerful smell renders other smells in the same room imperceptible — from the interruption of interposing bodies ; as the internal parts of animals : and, because the object is unfit to make an impression upon the sense : as the air or the invisible and untangible spirit which is included in every living body.
Page 108 - ... cold, heat, and magnetical virtues, all pass through the air at once, without obstructing one another, as if each of them had its own separate way or passage, so as to prevent impinging against, meeting with, or obstructing, one another.
Page 197 - ... minority, upon which an amendment of the state and condition of mankind, and an enlargement of their power over nature, must necessarily ensue. For by the fall, man at once forfeited his innocency, and his dominion over the creatures, though both of them are in some measure recoverable, even in this life ; the former by religion and faith ; and the latter by arts and sciences. For the world was not made absolutely rebellious by the curse, but in virtue of that denunciation, ' In the sweat of...
Page 27 - But this precept cannot be too frequently inculcated, that the procedure and method of mankind in their inquiries aml endeavours to collect a natural history, must be entirely altered from the method at present in use; for men's curiosity and diligence have been hitherto principally employed in observing the variety of things, and explaining the precise differences of animals, vegetables, and fossils, the greatest part of which...
Page 107 - ... that so very small a worm as that found in the skin, should have a spirit, and a peculiar structure and organization of different parts...
Page 107 - ... that the exact differences of sounds, should be every way conveyed through the air, and even through the holes and pores of wood and water, (though much weakened, indeed, in the passage,) and be reflected with great distinctness and velocity; that light and colour should so suddenly pass through such a bulk of solid matter, as glass, or of a fluid, as water ; yet so as at the same time to convey a great and exquisite variety of images, even though the light suffers refraction and reflection:...
Page 65 - ... experiment to determine whether the tendency of heavy bodies downwards is a result of some peculiar mechanism in themselves, or of the attraction of the earth " by the corporeal mass thereof, as by a collection of bodies of the same nature.