Francisci Baconi de Verulamio, summi Angliae cancellarii, Novum organum, sive indicia vera de interpretatione naturaee Typographeo Academico., 1855 - 385 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
aër aëre aërem aëris aliæ animalium Aphorism aqua aquæ Aristotle axiomata Bacon Bacon's bodies calidi calor calorem caloris causes cervisia chap corpora corporum course Democritus discovery experientia experimentum fact facts ferrum first flamma Form formæ Forms Galileo good great hæc have Heat homines hujusmodi Human Mind Hydrogen Idola illa illæ Induction infr inquisitio Instances instantiæ instantias intellectus ipsa Itaque know knowledge language Laws Learning Leucippus licet life light Logic magis man's materiæ matter means Method modern motum motus natura inquisita naturæ Neque Oxygen Philosophy Physical Physics Plato poros possit power præ prærogativas instantiarum præsertim præter principle process quæ quædam rerum rursus same says Science scientiæ scientiarum scientias seems sense sensum Similiter sine sint sive spiritus sulphur super supr system tamen tanquam tantum terræ things thought tion true truth veluti Verum view vitrum whole work would καὶ τὸ
Popular passages
Page 119 - Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Page 261 - So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More aery, last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes : flowers and their fruit, Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublimed, To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding; whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, or intuitive ; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, Differing .but in degree, of kind the same.
Page 33 - Or that the past will always win A glory from its being far, And orb into the perfect star We saw not when we moved therein...
Page 24 - Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Page 124 - So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Page 22 - For all that meets the bodily sense I deem Symbolical, one mighty alphabet For infant minds ; and we in this low world Placed with our backs to bright Reality, That we may learn with young unwounded ken The substance from its shadow.
Page 94 - Quod si quis aetate matura et sensibus integris et mente repurgata se ad experientiam et ad particularia de integro applicet, de eo melius sperandum est.
Page 101 - At inductio, quae ad inventionem et demonstrationem scientiarum et artium erit utilis, naturam separare debet, per rejectiones et exclusiones debitas; ac deinde post negativas tot quot sufficiunt, super affirmativas conclu.dere...
Page 26 - At longe subtilius serpit hoc malum in philosophiis et scientiis ; in quibus quod semel placuit reliqua (licet multo firmiora et potiora) inficit, et in ordinem redigit. Quinetiam licet abfuerit ea, quam diximus, delectatio et vanitas, is tamen humano intellectui error est proprius et perpetuus, ut magis moveatur et excitetur affirmativis, quam negativis...
Page 7 - For first, it trieth the writer, whether he be superficial or solid: for Aphorisms, except they should be ridiculous, cannot be made but of the pith and heart of sciences...