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The analogy between the mechanical arts, and the operations of scientific invention, might perhaps be carried further. In the former, we know how much the natural powers of man have been assisted, by the use of tools and instruments. Is it not possible...

The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord ... - Page 258
by Francis Bacon - 1824
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Questions de philosophie, précédées des règles de la dissertation ...

Charles Bénard - 1872 - 718 pages

...et assure le progrès non interrompu de la science. QUESTION XX Développer cette pensée de Bacon : Certo sciant homines artes inveniendi solidas et veras adolescere et incrementa sumere cum ipsis inventif. PROGRAMME Cette pensée est facile à expliquer et à justifier. En effet, 1« chaque découverte...

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