Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of NatureBacon, Francis
Religion
Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature
Bacon, Francis
Science -- Methodology
| descended living into Hades, to bring
| back to life his wife Eurydice, and
| perished, torn to pieces by infuriated
| Thracian maenads (see THE OXFORD
| CLASSICAL DICTIONARY; THE CENTURY
| DICTIONARY, VOL. 4)
part.{48} It is true, that in two points | 48. Spedding's note: The words "that
the curse is peremptory and not to be | is, man's miseries and necessities,"
removed; the one that vanity must be the | which followed in the transcript, have
end in all human effects, eternity being | a line drawn through them.
resumed, though the revolutions and |
periods may he delayed{49}. The other that | 49. Melek Hasgün comments:
the consent of the creature being now | "...eternity being resumed...".: In
turned into reluctation, this power cannot | Henry VIII (..) and King Lear (I/4)
otherwise be exercised and administered | ‘resume’ means: to take back
but with labour, as well in inventing as | something previously given or
in executing; yet nevertheless chiefly | granted. The fact that it is written
that labour and travel which is described | in the passive form without an object
by the sweat of the brows more than of the | implies that eternity has been taken
body; that is such travel as is joined | back by God, referring to the Fall of
with the working and discursion of the | Man and Paradise Lost.
spirits in the brain: for as Salomon saith |
excellently, THE FOOL PUTTETH TO MORE | ‘Revolution’ is the action or fact,
STRENGTH, BUT THE WISE MAN CONSIDERETH | on the part of celestial bodies, of
WHICH | moving round in an orbit or circular
| course. The time in which a planet or
| other heavenly body completes a full
| circuit or course. (OED) A look at the
| complete works and consequences of his
| work, namely the foundation of
| scientific or academic institutions
| after his death that were the
| precursors of the Royal Society
| (1660), ‘revolution’ can also be
| understood in the modern sense. In
| fact, NEW ATLANTIS and NOVUM ORGANUM
| set the foundation for the
| "intellectual revolution" (Harvey
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