 | Abraham Cowley - 1915 - 416 pages
...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 - 274 pages
...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 - 318 pages
...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 - 228 pages
..."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 - 408 pages
...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 - 282 pages
..."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 - 292 pages
...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 - 340 pages
..."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 - 260 pages
..."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 - 470 pages
...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. 
