 | Edward Grant - 2007
...function expresses the purpose of the Foundation, which is to advance natural philosophy, the latter being "the knowledge of Causes and secret motions of things;...bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible."17 The second function is "the Preparations and Instruments we have for our works," which... | |
 | Jaime Labastida - 2007 - 286 pages
..."Después de haber resumido todas las acciones del duque, no me es posible con57 The end of ourfoundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of...the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecíing ofall things possible (New Atlantis, op. cit., p. 210, col. 2). La edición española tiene... | |
 | Anthony Kenny - 2006 - 376 pages
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 | Robert Faulkner - 2008 - 278 pages
...experimental inquiry that breeds power on the grandest scale. "The End of our Foundation," he writes, "is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of...Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." But what keeps the white coats in the lab is fundamentally the possibility of gain and fame. While... | |
 | Mikael Hård, Thomas J. Misa - 2008 - 361 pages
...Solomon's House was to gain "knowledge of causes and the secret motions of things; and the enlargement of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible" (Bacon 1624/2001, 205). The main objective was to bring about scientific progress to improve society's... | |
 | Lewis Mumford - 2007 - 224 pages
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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. 
