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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 Advancement of Learning, Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1895 - 430 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...of natural philosophy, the inquisition of causes, 10 and the production of effects ; speculative, and operative ; natural science, and natural prudence....
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon

1905 - 958 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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The Cambridge History of English Literature: Prose and poetry: Sir Thomas ...

Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1909 - 608 pages
...natural philosophy. One of his fundamental ideas is expressed by its distinction into two parts — 'the inquisition of causes, and the production of...Speculative, and Operative ; Natural Science, and Natural Prudence.' More subtle is the distinction of natural science into physic and metaphysic. The latter...
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The Advancement of Learning, Book 2

Francis Bacon - 1910 - 462 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...of natural philosophy, the inquisition of causes, 10 and the production of effects ; speculative, and operative ; natural science, and natural prudence....
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Of the Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1915 - 272 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...division of that kind, though in more familiar and scholastics! terms; namely, that these be the two parts of natural philosophy,— the inquisition of...
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A History of English Philosophy

William Ritchie Sorley - 1920 - 418 pages
...natural philosophy. One of his fundamental ideas is expressed by its distinction into two parts — " the inquisition of causes, and the production of effects;...Speculative, and Operative; Natural Science, and Natural Prudence." More subtle is the distinction of natural science into physic and metaphysic. The latter...
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Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse

Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 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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The Natures of Science

Neville McMorris - 1989 - 276 pages
...into two parts he would "do best [to] allow a division ... in familiar and scholastical terms . . . the inquisition of causes, and the production of effects;...speculative, and operative; natural science and natural prudence."15 Thus "natural science" is to be linked with "speculative" and "inquisition of causes"...
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Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626

B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pages
...into the mine and 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. ' It is true that stages in constructing moral, governmental and legal philosophy can be called divisions,...
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The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630

Marie Boas Hall - 1994 - 408 pages
...place in natural philosophy. Analysing and cataloguing further, Bacon divided natural philosophy into " the Inquisition of Causes, and the Production of Effects...Speculative, and Operative ; Natural Science, and Natural Prudence," 6 each of which he was quite ready to subdivide further. In spite of his legal mind, Bacon...
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