...scientist Freeman J. Dyson quoted Sir Francis Bacon, one of the founding fathers of modern science: "God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world." 20 Dyson is warning us of what I call the Frankenstein Syndrome. Remember Frankenstein? Science begetting...

...nonfigural language of his scientific ideal. When "all depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving their images simply as they are," any indulgence in figural description is a surrender to a false eidolon, or mental fiction. "Similitudes,"...

...seco/o (Rome, Ateneo, 1984), pp. 91-115. 4 Ethics and politics in the New Atlantis DAVID COLCLOUGH God forbid that we should give out a dream of our...footsteps of the Creator imprinted on his creatures.' The New Atlantis is a text about natural philosophy which seems to offer connections at almost every...

...ignorance of causes that operation fails. And all depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving their images simply...on his creatures. Therefore do thou, O Father, who gave the visible light as the first fruits of creation, and did breathe into the face of man the intellectual...

...the visionariness of sheer empirical seeing: "all depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving their images simply...pattern of the world; rather may he graciously grant us to write an apocalypse or true vision of the footsteps of the Creator imprinted on his creatures."18...

...was to be grounded in ocular experience: And all depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving their images simply...of our own imagination for a pattern of the world.' For Bacon, the natural historian was to remain passive before nature as its images were received by...

...Instauration, Francis Bacon anticipated such dangers: [A]ll depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving their images simply...vision of the footsteps of the Creator imprinted on his creatures.37 Lear's tragedy is to give out a dream of his imagination, passionate but hyperbolic and...

..."All depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed on the facts of nature, and so receiving their images as they are. For God forbid that we should give out...of our own imagination for a pattern of the world." Descartes said. "I showed what the laws of nature were, and without basing my arguments on any principle...

...written,69 'on keeping the eye steadily fixed on the facts of nature, and so receiving their images as they are. For God forbid that we should give out...of our own imagination for a pattern of the world.' This was as clear a declaration against the employment of a general-purpose mind and against its invention...

...Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48— 1984 For Mary Lou — more a sister than a sister-in-law God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world. — Francis Bacon What sort of universe do we demand? If it were small enough to be cozy, it would...