...Bacon puts the words : " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of the cause and secret motion of things ; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible."3 Again in the " Novum Organum " Bacon sounds the same humanistic note : " Now the true and...

...research and fruit of knowledge. Now, as then, " the End of our Foundation is the Knowledge of Causes, and the secret motions of things ; and the enlarging of...Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." 2 And nothing so much inclined the spirits of our ancestors towards advance and reform of various shades...

...the enquiry into natural causes coincide: "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 thing possible". Yet the "Water of Paradise" still runs through the island for health and prolongation...

...Foundation," one of these rulers explains to barbarians from Europe, "is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the...Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." Already, in this South Pacific enchantment, the Salomonic wizards have invented microscopes, telescopes,...

..."Salomon's House," explained to foreign visitors, "The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the...empire, to the effecting of all things possible."^ What Bacon foresaw, wrote historian Theodore Roszak, was the possibility that "given sufficient technological...

...Atlantis, his plan for a scientific college, 'The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the...empire, to the effecting of all things possible'. The idea of human empire was a major ideal and legitimizing concept in modern Europe, especially as...

...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...

...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...

...have been concentrated. The visitor is told: "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 affecting of all things possible."2 The "Father" of the House describes the caves where mining experiments...

...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...