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" ... it were good to divide natural philosophy into the mine and the furnace, and to make two professions or occupations of natural philosophers, some to be pioneers, and some smiths ; some to dig, and some to refine and hammer: and surely I do best allow... "
The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord ... - Page 96
by Francis Bacon - 1824
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, with Prefaces and Notes ..., Volume 4

Francis Bacon - 1861 - 578 pages
...in familiar and scholastical terms ; namely, that the doctrine of Natural Philosophy be divided into the Inquisition of Causes, and the Production of Effects ; Speculative and Operative. The one searching into the bowels of nature, the other shaping nature as on an anvil. And though I...
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Modern Philosophy; O,r A Treatise of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy from ...

Frederick Denison Maurice - 1862 - 708 pages
...any deficience, that he rather notes an excess," we come to Natural Philosophy, which he divides into the " Inquisition of causes and the production of...speculative and operative ; natural science and natural prudence." In the division of Natural Science into Physic and Metaphysic, and in his comments upon...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 pages
...the furnace, and to make two professions or occupations of natural philosophers, some to be pioners and some smiths ; some to dig, and some to refine...Speculative, and Operative ; Natural Science, and Natural Prudence. For as in civil matters there is a wisdom of discourse and a wisdom of direction ; so is...
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Works, Volume 8

Francis Bacon - 1864 - 528 pages
...; namely, that the doctrine of Natural Philosophy be 1 Diog. Laert. in Pyrrho, c. 72. divided into the Inquisition of Causes, and the Production of Effects ; Speculative and Operative. The one searching into the bowels of nature, the other shaping nature as on an anvil: And though I...
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Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 pages
...the mine and the furnace: and to make two professions or occupations of natural philosophers, some to be pioneers and some smiths; some to dig, and some...scholastical terms; namely, that these be the two jjaztS-of- natural philosophy- the inquisition of jauses, and the,production of effects.; speculative7and...
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Fourteenth century to the French revolution, with a glimpse into the ...

Frederick Denison Maurice - 1873 - 744 pages
...any deficience, that he rather notes an excess," we come to Natural Philosophy which he divides into the " Inquisition of causes and the production of...speculative and operative ; natural science and natural prudence." In the division of Natural Science into Physic and Metaphysic, and in his comments upon...
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A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on ...

Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 pages
...of the object, and natural in respect of the light.' Natural philosophy he divides into two parts, the inquisition of causes, and the production of effects...speculative and operative ; natural science and natural prudence. Now the reader, unacquainted with the precise light in which Bacon regarded his own method,...
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A manual of English literature

Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 626 pages
...of the object, and natural in respect of the light.' Natural philosophy he divides into two parts, the inquisition of causes, and the production of effects...speculative and operative ; natural science and natural prudence. Now the reader, unacquainted with the precise light in which Bacon regarded his own method,...
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The Philosophy of Natural Theology: An Essay in Confutation of the ...

William Jackson - 1874 - 432 pages
...PRODUCTION AND ITS LAW. " IloXXi T4 ilui-a, Kiv&iv aivffpilntov temirrfpov wf\fu" Sophocles, Antigone. "These be the two parts of natural philosophy, —...speculative, and operative ; natural science, and natural prudence." Bacon's Advancement of Learning. Book II. " The perception of real affinities between events...
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The philosophy of natural theology, an essay which obtained a prize at ...

William Jackson - 1874 - 436 pages
...PRODUCTION AND ITS LAW. " IloXXd ri Scivii, KivSiv avOpiiiirov Seivirrcpov rt\ci." Sophocles, Antigone. "These be the two parts of natural philosophy,—...speculative, and operative ; natural science, and natural prudence." Bacon's Advancement of Learning. Book II. " The perception of real affinities between events...
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