 | Abraham Cowley - 1915 - Страниц: 416
...true nature of all things ', ' the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible.' It was a great national college, endowed on a lavish scale with a full equipment for scientific research.... | |
 | Nicholas A. Hans - 1951 - Страниц: 274
...foundation (Solomon's House) is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible' (New Atlantis). All the investigations and experiments of the Royal Society were directed to these... | |
 | Perez Zagorin - 1998 - Страниц: 318
...whose aim is the investigation of the "Causes, and secret motions of all things" in order to enlarge "the bounds of Human Empire to the effecting of all things possible." The account that follows is a wish fulfillment of Bacon's desire for the endowment of science by states... | |
 | Marina Leslie - 1998 - Страниц: 228
..."The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible" (3.156). Where Aristotle maintained that "the end aimed at is not knowledge [gnosisl but action [praxid,"... | |
 | Joseph Marie comte de Maistre - 1998 - Страниц: 408
...Bacon knew or suspected "that the pursuit of the goal and dream of Solomon's House - 'the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible' - would lead to the brink of nihilism - 'everything is permitted'?"136 is still unresolved is why Maistre... | |
 | Daniel Ray White - 1998 - Страниц: 282
..."The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible" (New Atlantis, 1627, 210). Thus in the history of modern ideas science is usually represented as rising... | |
 | Egbert Tellegen, Maarten Wolsink - 1998 - Страниц: 292
...hi; end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things. and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.' (Bacon, no date, p.33). In the concept of 'Mother Nature', the idea of motherhood and the idea of nature... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - Страниц: 340
..."The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of...are sunk six hundred fathom, and some of them are dug and made under great hills and mountains so that if you reckon together the depth of the hill and... | |
 | Glenn Hughes - 1999 - Страниц: 260
..."The end of our Foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." A detailed description of the investigation of the natural world then follows: from caves to mountain... | |
 | David N. Livingstone, Charles W. J. Withers - 1999 - Страниц: 470
...Verulam proclaimed "Knowledge itself is power" and that "the end of our foundation is ... the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible"? Through natural philosophy, maintained Joseph Gianvili, reiterating Bacon, "nature being known . .... | |
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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible. 
