francis bacon

Novum Organum

First published 1620 · edited by Joseph Devey, 1902
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Preface
They who have presumed to dogmatize on nature, as on some well investigated subject, either from self-conceit or arrogance, and in the…
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On the Interpretation of Nature and the Empire of Man
I. Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observations on the order of nature, either with…
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On the Interpretation of Nature, or the Reign of Man
I. To generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures, upon a given body, is the labor and aim of human power: while to discover the…