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" The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. "
Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Page 65
by George Lillie Craik - 1846
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La pedagogia tedesca contemporanea, Volume 1

Michele Borrelli - 1995 - 420 pages
...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...
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Utopische Profile: Renaissance und Reformation. Band 1

Richard Saage - 2001 - 262 pages
...(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.)....
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Peace Among the Willows: The Political Philosophy of Francis Bacon

Howard B. White - 1968 - 286 pages
...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...
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On Science

B. K. Ridley - 2001 - 225 pages
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American Philosophy of Technology: The Empirical Turn

Hans Achterhuis - 2001 - 198 pages
...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...
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On Science

B. K. Ridley - 2001 - 244 pages
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Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader

Martin D. Yaffe - 2001 - 446 pages
...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...
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The New Agrarianism: Land, Culture, and the Community of Life

Eric T. Freyfogle - 2001 - 338 pages
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Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy

Peter A. French, Howard Wettstein - 2003 - 320 pages
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Het recht op privacy: een onderzoek naar de betekenis van het begrip ...

Peter Hendrik Blok - 2002 - 396 pages
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