The Novum Organon: Or, A True Guide to the Interpretation of NatureThe University Press, 1855 - 338 sider |
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Acatalepsy Aeschines affirmative Amen Corner Ancients animals Aristotle Axioms Burning Glass causes Cold compression conceptions Crucial Instance Democritus diligent discovered discovery of Forms Diurnal Motion earth Edition effects errors especially example expansion experiments farther Farthermore fire flame follows Form of Heat gathered given Nature Glass greater Greeks hand Heavenly Bodies Heavens Henry Nettleship Hope human Intellect ignited Induction inquiry Intel Interpretation of Nature Iron kind of Motion Lastly Latent Process less let the Nature Leucippus light liquids Magnet matter means men's ment metals method mind Natural Philosophy Nature sought Negative object operation Organon particulars perfect circle Phantoms Prerogative Instances putrefaction quantity Quicksilver Rays readily reject rightly Robinson Ellis Scholia Sciences seems senses shew shewn Similarly spirits of wine subjoined substances subtilty subtle Syllogism tangible bodies things tion Tomi touch true truth unless virtue weight whence wont to call
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Side 182 - Again ; the mathematical postulate, that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.
Side 111 - ... one another; and nevertheless the very beholding of the light is itself a more excellent and a fairer thing than all the uses of it;— so assuredly the very contemplation of things, as they are, without superstition or imposture, error or confusion, is in itself more worthy than all the fruit of inventions.
Side 82 - But not only is a greater abundance of experiments to be sought for and procured, and that too of a different kind from those hitherto tried; an entirely different method, order, and process for carrying on and advancing experience must also be introduced. For experience, when it wanders in its own track, is, as I have already remarked, mere groping in the dark, and confounds men rather...
Side 109 - It is the glory of God to conceal a thing : but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Side 68 - : noted accurately, tend wholly to the unfair circumscription of human power, and to a deliberate and factitious despair ; which not only disturbs the auguries of hope, but also cuts the sinews and spur of industry, and throws away the chances of experience itself...
Side 78 - They who have handled the sciences have been either empirics or dogmatists. The empirics, like the ant, amass only and use; the dogmatists, like spiders, spin webs out of themselves. But the course of the bee lies midway — she gathers materials from the flowers of the garden and the field, and then by her own powers changes and digests them.
Side 40 - Nor again is it a less evil, that in their philosophies and contemplations their labour is spent in investigating and handling the first principles of things and the highest generalities of nature ; whereas utility and the means of working result entirely from things intermediate. Hence it is that men cease not from abstracting nature till they come to potential and uninformed...
Side 13 - We have no sound notions either in logic or physics ; substance, quality, action, passion, and existence are not clear notions ; much less, weight, levity, density, tenuity, moisture, dryness, generation, corruption, attraction, repulsion, element, matter, form, and the like.
Side 34 - Homoeomera of Anaxagoras; the Atoms of Leucippus and Democritus; the Heaven and Earth...