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Novum organum — Francis Bacon

Novum organum

Francis Bacon

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 248 pages

Novum Organum is Francis Bacon's philosophical treatise in aphorisms, proposing a new logic and inductive method for interpreting nature. It critiques the mind's preconceptions, known as the idols, and argues for observation and experiment over inherited dogma. It is worth listening to for its role in shaping empiricism and modern scientific thought.

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NOVUM ORGANUM

BY

LORD BACON

EDITED BY JOSEPH DEVEY, M.A.

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NEW YORK

P. F. COLLIER & SON

MCMII

22

SCIENCE

NOVUM ORGANUM

OR

TRUE SUGGESTIONS FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE

PREFACE

TƒŧΏ who have presumed to dogmatize on nature, as on some well investigated subject, either from self-conceit or arrogance, and in the professorial style, have inflicted the greatest injury on philosophy and

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Contents

  1. NOVUM ORGANUM
  2. PREFACE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. APHORISMS—BOOK I ON THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE AND THE EMPIRE OF MAN
  5. APHORISMS—BOOK II ON THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE, OR THE REIGN OF MAN
  6. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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