 | Stanton J. Linden - 392 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 and hammer" (3:351). Bacon's allusion to Vulcan, his metaphor for art or "second nature," is symptomatic of his... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...the furnace, and to make two professions or occupations of natural philosophers, some to be pioners0 and some smiths; some to dig, and some to refine and...division of that kind, though in more familiar and scholastical0 terms; namely, that these be the two parts of natural philosophy, — the Inquisition... | |
 | Philippa Berry, Margaret Tudeau-Clayton - 2003 - 242 pages
...though in more familiar and scholastical terms; namely that these be the two parts of natural philsophy, the inquisition of causes, and the production of effects; speculative and operative.' But see also II.viii.3, p. 97, where he divides the 'part operative of natural philosophy' into the... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 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...surely I do best allow of a division of that kind, into speculative, and operable; natural science and natural prudence. Now although it be true that... | |
 | Dennis Desroches - 2006 - 237 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...speculative, and operative; natural science and natural prudence. (90 - original emphasis) Though the metaphors may differ, there can be no question concerning... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 500 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 and...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 it... | |
 | 452 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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... 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... 
