 | Brigid Hains - 2002 - 272 pages
..."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;... | |
 | Abbe Mowshowitz - 2002 - 288 pages
...material. Some three centuries ago, Francis Bacon expressed the promise of science and technology as "the knowledge of Causes and secret motions of things;...Human empire, to the effecting of all things possible" (Bacon, 1627). Alas, our restless probing and meddling have not always served to enlarge the bounds... | |
 | I. G. Enting - 2002 - 392 pages
...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... | |
 | Dominick Jenkins - 2002 - 332 pages
...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... | |
 | Bronwen Price - 2002 - 226 pages
...the light of Bensalem and 'dedicated to the study of the works and creatures of God', and source of 'the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire [and] ... effecting of all things possible'. It is, in other words, the engine of otherwise unheard... | |
 | William Stahl, Robert A. Campbell, Gary Diver, Yvonne Petry - 2002 - 260 pages
...goals of science thus: "The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and the secret motion of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human...empire, to the effecting of all things possible." 49 Implied here is that the causes of things can be discovered. The implications of this belief are... | |
 | Paul A. Olson - 2002 - 398 pages
...progeny. The proposal that humankind attempr a permanent makeover of the natural world to accomplish the "enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire to the effecting of all things possible' " leads to the cteation of institutions of education and research that could conduct the makeovet.... | |
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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. 
