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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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God and the Crisis of Freedom: Biblical and Contemporary Perspectives

Richard Bauckham - 2002 - 236 pages
..."Works 4. 248. ^Works 3. 222-23. l)sNew Atlantis, quoted in Preus, "Religion," 269: "the enlargement of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." l*°The Masculine Birth of Time, in Farrington, The Philosophy of Francis Bacon, 62. wNovum Organon...
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Operative Words: Essays and Reviews on Literature and Culture, 1981

Paul Bodine - 2002 - 288 pages
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Romantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance

Klaus Benesch - 2002 - 258 pages
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The Major Works

Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...functions whereto our fellows are assigned. And fourthly, the ordinances and rites which we observe. 'The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions0 of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire,0 to the effecting of all things...
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The New Atlantis and The City of the Sun: Two Classic Utopias

Francis Bacon, Tomasso Campanella - 2003 - 102 pages
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A History of Ideas About the Prolongation of Life

Gerald Joseph Gruman - 2003 - 246 pages
...was the guiding faith at "Solomon's House," the research center of Bacon's utopia, "New Atlantis." The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes,...human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. 54 Furthermore, Bacon felt that meliorism rebounded to the advantage of pure science itself: that a...
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Candid Science III: More Conversations with Famous Chemists

István Hargittai - 2003 - 507 pages
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Candid Science III: More Conversations with Famous Chemists

István Hargittai - 2003 - 507 pages
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Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination

Denis Cosgrove - 2003 - 356 pages
...feature of late Renaissance cosmographic discourse. In his New Atlantis of i637 Francis Bacon wrote that "the end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes,...of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire.""2 Bacon's triad would find graphic expression in the emblematic globe. stx Emblematif Globe...
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The Architecture of the Museum: Symbolic Structures, Urban Contexts

Michaela Giebelhausen - 2003 - 268 pages
...contrary, Bacon emphasises the isolation and self-sufficiency of the scientific community. Although the 'end of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes,...motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of the Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible', the scientists withhold that 'which we...
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