Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature

Name: Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature
Author: Bacon, Francis

Bacon, Francis

Science -- Methodology

| physics and biology, produced a
                                           | phenomenology and an empiricism
                                           | that were both quite compatible with the
                                           | pre-Newtonian science of Bacon.
                                           |
                                           | About 80% of the actual research in
                                           | laboratories done today by scientists of
                                           | all fields, (unaware) follows remarkably
                                           | closely to the process explained by
                                           | Bacon in Novum Organum and described in
                                           | New Atlantis--except that taskforce
                                           | research is not today quite as well
                                           | organized as was described by Bacon in
                                           | New Atlantis.
                                           |
                                           | In thinking of Bacon's philosophy of science
                                           | remember the three features in the Latin of
                                           | Novum Organum: Schematismus,
                                           | Processus, Form. These operations, which
                                           | have counterparts in the "case method" of
                                           | searching for the implicit unwritten law
                                           | behind a series of judge rulings, cannot be
                                           | understood from a reading of the Ellis
                                           | translation. Nobody who works from that
                                           | version can understand, nor do justice to,
                                           | Bacon's science.
with the Annotations of                    |
Hermes Stella{2}                           | 2. Franz Trägfer sums up the
Harley MSS.6463                            | discussion on "Hermes Stella"
                                           | and "Valerius Terminus" "Der Titel des
                                           | Fragments wurde zweimal entscheidend
                                           | interpretiert. Ellis (Vorwort,
                                           | 201/2):
                                           |
                                           | "It is impossible to ascertain
                                           | the motive which determined
                                           | Bacon to give the supposed
                                           | author the name of Valerius
                                           | Terminus, or to his

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Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature

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