Novum organumSt. Louis Publishing Company, 1901 - 290 páginas |
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Página 79
... metals , and fossils ) , it will arise from a want of sufficiently attending to and comprehending our present observations ; for a natural history compiled on its own account , and one collected for the mind's information as a ...
... metals , and fossils ) , it will arise from a want of sufficiently attending to and comprehending our present observations ; for a natural history compiled on its own account , and one collected for the mind's information as a ...
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... magnetism , copper wires , or , indeed , wires of any metal , may be transformed into magnets ; the magnetic law , or form , having been to that extent discovered . tures , but by concrete bodies , as they are NOVUM ORGANUM 118.
... magnetism , copper wires , or , indeed , wires of any metal , may be transformed into magnets ; the magnetic law , or form , having been to that extent discovered . tures , but by concrete bodies , as they are NOVUM ORGANUM 118.
Página 114
... metal or stone is generated from the original menstruum , or its elements , up to the perfect min- eral : or , in like manner , by what process plants are gener- ated , from the first concretion of juices in the earth , or from seeds ...
... metal or stone is generated from the original menstruum , or its elements , up to the perfect min- eral : or , in like manner , by what process plants are gener- ated , from the first concretion of juices in the earth , or from seeds ...
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... metals . " This , however , belongs to the table of degrees . " This last is found to be the real reason , air not being a good conductor , and therefore not allowing the escape of heat . The confined air is disengaged when these ...
... metals . " This , however , belongs to the table of degrees . " This last is found to be the real reason , air not being a good conductor , and therefore not allowing the escape of heat . The confined air is disengaged when these ...
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... metal are struck off , and that the air never forms them by friction , as is commonly supposed ; besides , the sparks from the weight of the ignited substance have a tendency to descend rather than to rise , and when extinguished become ...
... metal are struck off , and that the air never forms them by friction , as is commonly supposed ; besides , the sparks from the weight of the ignited substance have a tendency to descend rather than to rise , and when extinguished become ...
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Página 25 - ... infinity in time past and in time to come can by no means hold; for it would thence follow that one infinity is greater than another, and that infinity is wasting away and tending to become finite. The like subtlety arises touching the infinite divisibility of lines, from the same inability of thought to stop.
Página 15 - ... proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general...
Página 22 - The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds; and although many things in nature be sui generis and most irregular, will yet invent parallels and conjugates and relatives, where no such thing is. Hence the fiction, that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, thus rejecting entirely spiral and serpentine lines (except as explanatory terms).
Página 16 - There is a great difference between the Idols of the human mind and the Ideas of the divine. That is to say, between certain empty dogmas, and the true signatures and marks set upon the works of creation as they are found in nature.
Página 22 - For we regard all the systems of philosophy hitherto received or imagined, as so many plays brought out and performed, creating fictitious and theatrical worlds. Nor do we speak only of the present systems, or of the philosophy and sects of the ancients, since numerous other plays of a similar nature can be still composed and made to agree with each other, the causes of the most opposite errors being generally the same.
Página 12 - Even the effects already discovered are due to chance and experiment rather than to the sciences. For our present sciences are nothing more than peculiar arrangements of matters already discovered, and not methods for discovery, or plans for new operations.
Página 11 - Effects are produced by the means of instruments and helps, which the understanding requires no less than the hand. And as instruments either promote or regulate the motion of the hand, so those that are applied to the mind prompt or protect the understanding. 3. Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
Página 61 - The opinion which men cherish of antiquity is altogether idle, and scarcely accords with the term. For the old age and increasing years of the world should in reality be considered as antiquity, and this is rather the character of our own times than of the less advanced age of the world in those of the ancients; for the latter, with respect to ourselves, are ancient and elder, with respect to the world modern and younger.
Página 105 - It is the glory of God to conceal a thing : but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Página 76 - The true labour of philosophy resembles hers, for it neither relies entirely or principally on the powers of the mind, nor yet lays up in the memory the matter afforded by the experiments of natural history and mechanics in its raw state, but changes and works it in the understanding.