...foreshadowed in the dream of "Saloman's House" or the "College of the Six Days' Work," of which he says : — "The end of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes and secret motions of things and the enlargement of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." 1 It is true that...

..."Salomon's House" where all the activities of research have been concentrated. The visitor is told: "The end of our Foundation is the knowledge of causes...the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the affecting of all things possible."2 The "Father" of the House describes the caves where mining experiments...

...scopo della casa di Salomone, della ricerca scientifica, "is the knowledge of causes, and secret motion of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible" (4). E l'adempimento di tali scopi è cosi constatò in senso più ampio e lungimirante il preilluminista...

...(185). 3"Pfeiffer 1983, S. 54. 3'Seeber/Bachem 1985, S. 157. 32Die entscheidende Formulierung lautet: "The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the cnlarging of the bounds of human empire. to the effecting of all things possible" (Bacon 1825, S. 364f.)....

...styled the "lanthorn" of the kingdom. We are specifically told that the end of the foundation includes the "enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible." 32 Science is pervasive. The scientists decide which experiments and inventions to reveal to the public...

...Bacon's New Atlantis, the technologists of "Solomon's House" were charged with, among other things, "enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." And Descartes speaks in analogous terms about the possibility of attaining knowledge useful to life...

...example, that the announced practical aim of modern science according to Bacon's New Atlantis ("enlarging the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible") and Descartes' Discourse on Method ("rendering ourselves as masters and possessors of nature") implies...

..."establishment of the Kingdom of Man" — Lord Bacon'. Mawson may well have been thinking of Bacon's claim that: 'The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes,...bounds of human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible'.36 Bacon's utopia, the New Atlantis, was a technocratic society ruled by magus-like scientists;...

...key reference. Chapter 19 Conclusions The end of our Foundation is the knowledge of causes, and the secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the...human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. Sir Francis Bacon: New Atlantis (1627). Inverse modelling of the atmospheric transport of trace constituents...

...Bacon's imagined utopian island located somewhere in the Pacific, "is the knowledge of causes, and the secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the...empire, to the effecting of all things possible." It was an intoxicating idea. Yet events soon suggested that the attempt to realize Bacon's vision has...